Proso millet, a crop that makes more grain from less water than any other, has been neglected by the seed industry for many years. But that is starting to change. In the summer of 2021 farmers across ...
"In the absence of supportive policies and sufficient investment priorities aimed at promoting finger millet cultivation and utilization, additional barriers to its integration into mainstream ...
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared 2023 the international year of millets, praising the grain’s ability to grow in arid soil with minimal inputs. For many farmers, 2023 ...
Farmers in Busia harvest their finger millet crop. Photo by Charles Mwaniki, ICRISAT Finger millet is highly valued for its nutritional qualities and recognized as a Smart Food, yet production of ...
Italian gluten-free specialist Dr. Schär is investing in new millet varieties with improved nutritional characteristics and better adapted to changing environment, FoodNavigator hears. The Food & ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aims Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] open-pollinated varieties, which are the predominant cultivars, have never been ...
These seed banks focus on conserving local crop diversity such as beans, groundnuts, sorghum and millet among others to ...
The High Plains Millet Association is making a late push urging Colorado millet producers to vote yes for a Colorado Millet Marketing Order. The market order, also called a “checkoff,” would be ...
Michael Major is a science communicator at Crop Trust and works to disseminate information regarding the Genebank Platform, Crop Wild Relatives and Genesys. It can get stinking hot in Agra, in India’s ...
Finger millet farmers in Busia county display their mature crops. Linet Akamuran, a young farmer from Okemer in Teso South, Busia County, cultivates eight acres of finger millet annually, yielding 70 ...
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