Grain sorghums include durra, milo, shallu, kafir corn, Egyptian corn, great millet, and Indian millet.
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), also called great millet, Indian millet, milo, durra, orshallu, cereal grain plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible starchy seeds.
But Greenpeace insisted Vitamin A rice was still "years away" from being ready for use and pointed to MAS successes with rice, wheat and in increasing resistence to disease to crops that are of key importance in their own small geographical areas – such as Indian millet and sorghum in Sudan.
India has many huge mountains which abound in fruit-trees of every kind, and many vast plains of great fertility….The greater part of the soil, moreover, is under irrigation, and consequently bears two crops in the course of the year….In addition to cereals, there grows throughout India much millet…and much pulse of different sorts, and rice also, and what is called bosporum [Indian millet].
Crops cultivated in the Madras Presidency included cereals such as rice, corn, kambhu (Indian millet) and ragi as well as vegetables including brinjal, sweet potato, ladies' fingers, beans, onions, garlic and spices such as chilli, pepper and ginger along with vegetable oils made from castor beans and peanuts.
Among the 43 product types described, 16 were prepared from millet, 11 from rice and 12 from Indian millet.
Once into areas near the Indian peninsula (perhaps broadly around 2000 BC or the centuries after), these farmers picked up native Indian millets and pulses and domesticated sheep, goat and zebu, in some cases apparently with connected early Dravidian vocabulary.
[ 10] assessed the genetic diversity within and between ten Indian pearl millet landraces.
Our finding is in good accordance with the results of [ 10] who observed that about 2.5 times more variation was present between Indian pearl millet landraces than within the landraces.
The ultimate objective of our study was to elucidate the fibrolytic potential of the rumen microbial community in Indian crossbred (HF) cattle fed finger millet straw.
Many croplands that once produced sorghum and millet seeds, on which the great Indian bustard thrived, have become fields of sugarcane and cotton or grape orchards.
