Until 15 years ago, residents of the semi-arid Vizianagaram district in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh did not cultivate any millets. For that matter, they did not cultivate any food crops. ...
Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of ...
Foxtail millet cultivated on the northern Loess Plateau, in present-day northern Shaanxi province. (Photo provided to China Daily) A new high-resolution climate study from China's Loess Plateau ...
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Not a single grain remained - Nagaland village sees millet farming become a hit with farmers
A small village in Nagaland, home to roughly 2,000 residents and situated about 40 kilometres from Kohima, is witnessing a resurgence in millet farming. Kezoma held its second annual millet festival ...
A recent study, jointly conducted by the Institute of Earth Environment at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and several Chinese and international research institutions, has found that soil temperature ...
New research shows a cereal familiar today as birdseed was carried across Eurasia by ancient shepherds and herders laying the foundation, in combination with the new crops they encountered, of ...
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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