Pearl Millet
WHAT IS MILLET?
Pearl Millet
The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops or grains, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. They do not form a taxonomic group, but rather a functional or agronomic one. Their essential similarities are that they are small-seeded grasses grown in difficult production environments such as those at risk of drought. They have been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10,000 years.
The millets include species in several genera, mostly in the subfamily Panicoideae, except for finger millet. The most widely cultivated species in order of worldwide production are:
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
Foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
Proso millet, common millet, broom corn millet, hog millet or white millet (Panicum miliaceum)
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
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