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- tall grass having cattail like spikes; grown in Africa and Asia for its grain and in the United States chiefly for forage; sometimes used in making beer
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- In addition, improved dehulling characteristics are vital if pearl millet is going to be employed in human foods on a truly wide scale. 6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types
- Glabrous mutant varieties have been identified in many cereal crop species, including rice, wheat, barley, oats, pearl millet, sugarcane, and sorghum.
- Daylength Pearl millet is usually a short-day plant (see next chapter), but some varieties are daylength neutral. 4. Pearl Millet
- The International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and the West Africa Seed Alliance are working with farmers and processors to address the major barriers and improve the value of products made from sorghum, pearl millet and groundnuts in the northern Nigeria towns of Jigawa and Kano. Nigerian Project Works to Improve Sales of Products Made From Grains
- If scientists can grow mature, fertile plants from tissues of pearl millet, finger millet, fonio, irregular barley, and tef, they will open doors to the more rapid development of these cereals. 13. Other Cultivated Grains
- The seed project was started last year to produce different varieties of quality, pure-bred mahangu (pearl millet), sorghum, maize, groundnut and cowpea seed, adapted to the needs of local farmers.
- It is also easier to manage damage by grain-feeding birds on semidwarf cultivars of sorghum and pearl millet.
- Evaluation of the effect of processing techniques on the nutrient and antinutrient contents of pearl millet Chapter 28
- Recropping intervals include: anytime for soybeans; 4 months for wheat, barley, rye, oats and triticale; 10 months for field corn and sorghum; 12 months for proso and pearl millet; and 18 months for sweet corn.
- The chapter on pearl millet provides a useful introduction to this crop.