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5200 BC – In the heart of the Sahara Desert, several native species were domesticated, most importantly pearl millet, sorghum and cowpeas, which spread through West Africa and the Sahel. At this time the Sahara was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, it was far more moist and densely populated than today.
Camels were domesticated late, perhaps around 3000 BC. In subsaharan Africa, sorghum was domesticated in the Sahel region of Africa by 3000 BC, along with pearl millet by 2000 BC. [10] [11] Yams were domesticated in several distinct locations, including West Africa (unknown date), and cowpeas by 2500 BC.
Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum [2] (/ ˈ s ɔːr ɡ ə m /) and also known as great millet, [3] broomcorn, [4] guinea corn, [5] durra, [6] imphee, [7] jowar, [8] or milo, [9] is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain. The grain is used as food by humans, while the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol ...
Ever wondered when those animals on the farm made it to the farm?. Well, humans decided to tame some of them as pets and others for more appetizing reasons many years ago.. SEE ALSO: Meet the ...
Today, all principal food crops come from domesticated varieties. Almost all the domesticated plants used today for food and agriculture were domesticated in the centers of origin . In these centers there is still a great diversity of closely related wild plants, so-called crop wild relatives , that can also be used for improving modern ...
A farmer of the Hani minority, famous for their rice terraced mountains in Yuanyang County, Yunnan A female tractor driver in China depicted in a 1964 poster. The People's Republic of China (PRC) primarily produces rice, wheat, potatoes, tomatoes, sorghum, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, cotton, oilseed, corn and soybeans.
9th millennium BC: Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) is domesticated in the Fertile Crescent in West Asia. The earliest remains of barley have been discovered at Neolithic sites in West Asia, including Jericho (Palestine) and Abu Hureyra (Syria) from about 8500 years BC.
Many other species of Sorghum are endemic to Australia. Data from Fuller, Dorian Q. (2018) "Sorghum Domestication and Diversification: A Current Archaeobotanical Perspective" in Plants and People in the African Past , Springer International Publishing, pp. 427–452 DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-89839-1_19 .