write a short note on millets found in india
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Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favored due to its productivity andshort growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions.
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The millets are considered to have been cultivated in India from pre-historic times. Their importance as an article of human food can be realized from the fact that about 30 million acres in India fall under millets.
Millets are generally grown as mixed crops in regions of low rainfall, the other crop grown with them being usually one of the legumes. Most of the millets grown in our country are of short duration, taking, three to four months from sowing to harvesting. Some of India are sorghum pearl millet and finger millet.
Sorghum:
Sorghum vullgare Pers.; Eng.: Sorghum; Hindi: Jowar, Family: Gramineac: (Poaceae)
India is one of the leading countries in the world the production of sorghum. The area under this millet is 42.6 million acres, and the production of the grain is estimated Lit about 7.4 million tonnes. It is chiefly cultivated in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.