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Pearl millet is a summer annual crop well-suited for double cropping and rotations. The grain and forage are valuable as food and feed resources in Africa, Russia, India and China. Today, pearl millet is grown on over 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) of land worldwide. It accounts for about 50% of the total world production of millets. [7]
Pearl millet is one of the two major crops in the semiarid, impoverished, less fertile agriculture regions of Africa and southeast Asia. [43] Millets are not only adapted to poor, dry infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops. [43] Millets, however, do respond to high fertility and moisture.
Hindi English Botanical name Assamese Bengali ... Pearl millet: Pennisetum glaucum: বাজৰা (Bājrā) ... Millet (finger millet) flour:
A seed that is classified as a whole grain, millet is often found in birdseed. This naturally occurring gluten-free cereal is full of minerals—such as potassium and magnesium—and packs a punch ...
Proso millet is a relative of foxtail millet, pearl millet, maize, and sorghum within the grass subfamily Panicoideae. While all of these crops use C4 photosynthesis , the others all employ the NADP-ME as their primary carbon shuttle pathway, while the primary C4 carbon shuttle in proso millet is the NAD-ME pathway.
The ICRISAT genebank serves as a repository for the collection of germplasm of the six mandate crops [16] – sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut; and five small millets – foxtail millet, little millet, kodo millet, proso millet and barnyard millet.
Milk and Pearl Millet Flour Media: Rabri Rabri ( IAST : Rabaḍī) ( Hindi : रबड़ी ) is a sweet, condensed-milk-based dish, originating from the Indian subcontinent , made by boiling milk on low heat for a long time until it becomes dense and changes its colour to off-white or pale yellow.
Raab : It is prepared by cooking millet flour in buttermilk. Common millets which are used are: Makai, Bajra & Jowar. Raab is regarded as a nutritious food. Ghaat : A dish similar to raab but made with millet porridge instead of millet flour. It is also prepared either with of millets viz. Corn, pearl millet, sorghum or barley.