Global and Indian scenario of millets
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Authors
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B Venkatesh Bhat
ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 030
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K Hariprasanna
ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 030
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Sooganna
ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 030
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C V Ratnavathi
ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 030
Keywords:
Area, Millets, Production, YieldAbstract
Millets are the food crops adapted to dryland agro-ecologies of the arid and semi-arid tropics. In India, millets are produced in most of the regions characterized by low to moderate precipitation (200–800 mm rainfall). Major millet crops include jowar or sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), bajra or pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), mandua/ragi or finger millet (Eleusine coracana); and small millets comprising of kangni or foxtail millet (Setaria italica), kutki or sama or little millet (Panicum antidotale), kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum), jhangora or sawan or barnyard millet (Echinochloa frumentacea), cheena or proso millet (Setaria italica) and korale or brown top millet (Brachiaria ramosa). Other minor millets grown are Teff (Eragrostis tef) and Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) and Job’s tears (Coix lacryma-jobi).
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