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Finger Millet Production In India. The millets commonly grown in India include Jowar sorghum Bajra pearl millet ragi finger millet Jhangora barnyard millet Barri Proso or common millet Kangni foxtail Italian millet Kodra Kodo millet etc. The major producers of millets in 1990 were India 39 percent China 15 percent Nigeria 13 percent and the Soviet Union 12 percent Table 8. Karnataka is the leading producer of ragi with 5394 per cent of the total area and 5336 per cent o. Genetic resources were augmented for Sorghum 6101 Pearl millet 1855 Finger millet 4311 Foxtail millet 1926 Proso millet 1431 Little millet 224 Kodo millet 255 Barnyard millet.
Karnataka accounts for 5621. The area under this millet is 426 million acres and the production of the grain is estimated Lit about 74 million tonnes. Finger millet is native to the Ethiopian and Ugandan highlands. Ripe Finger millet or Ragi grow in a field of Karnataka. Genetic resources were augmented for Sorghum 6101 Pearl millet 1855 Finger millet 4311 Foxtail millet 1926 Proso millet 1431 Little millet 224 Kodo millet 255 Barnyard millet. Millet Little millet Kodo millet and Barnyard millet were collected through five germplasm exploration programmes.
The major producers of millets in 1990 were India 39 percent China 15 percent Nigeria 13 percent and the Soviet Union 12 percent Table 8.
They can be grown in dry weather. Karnataka is the leading producer of ragi with 5394 per cent of the total area and 5336 per cent o. India dominates the global production According to FAO the global millet production was estimated at 284 million metric ton in 2019. In India finger millet is cultivated over an area of 119 million hectares with a production of 198 million tonne giving an average productivity of 1661 kg per ha. They can be grown in dry weather. This state yielded 905 kgha of millet with the production of 4979 lakh tonnes of millets in the fiscal year 2010-2011.