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Small millets research: achievements during 1947-97

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Title Small millets research: achievements during 1947-97
 
Creator SEETHARAM, A
 
Subject finger millet, foxtail millet, kodo millet, little millet, proso millet, barnyard millet, production, technologies, trade, consumptive use
 
Description In India 6 small millets, viz finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.], foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.)Beauv.], kodo millet (Paspalum scrobiculatum L.), little millet (Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult.), prosomillet (Panicum miliaceum L.) and barnyard millet [Echinochloa frumentacea (Roxb.) Link], are cultivated as grain and feed crops. Though during the last 50 years the area under small mi millet decreased by 4 million ha. there was no reduction in their overall production. The finger millet, a major contributor to the sustenance of production level, accounts for about 50% area and 65% production under small millets. The productivity of small millets other than finger millet remained stagnant around 450 kg/ha in the last 5 decades. The small millets have been the least priority crops in respect of their promotion and development. In this article an attempt was made to review the progress of research in these millets during the last 5 decades.
 
Publisher The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
 
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Date 2013-02-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/27642
 
Source The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences; Vol 68, No 8 (1998)
0019-5022
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/27642/12538
 
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