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 ...

In 2024, when food researcher and writer Shivani Unakar visited Maan taluka in Satara, Maharashtra, she learned from local millet farmers that insufficient rainfall had delayed the germination of the ...

Recognising Kezoma's efforts to revive millet cultivation, the District Agriculture Office (DAO), Kohima, on Tuesday ...

The permanent human occupation on the Tibetan Plateau was facilitated by the introduction of cold-tolerant barley around 3600 years before present (BP), however, how barley agriculture spread onto the ...

Foxtail millet cultivated on the northern Loess Plateau, in present-day northern Shaanxi province (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) A new high-resolution climate study from China’s Loess Plateau suggests that ...

Ranchi: With low rainfall likely this year because of El Niño, the agriculture, animal husbandry and cooperative department ...

some years ago. But it was stopped after they focused on paddy, wheat and other crops on demand. Gradually millet started a vanishing act from the food list of Odias over the years. But people living ...

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 ...