millet
Is the term millet or horseradish and the Moroccan dialect is called Ilan, a term known as the type of plant of the genus Nigella of the genus Thamam, in Latin Panicum spp, and the Pennisetum spp, and the tail of the fox Setaria spp, and this plant produces very fine grain and grows in the dry areas in Asia and Africa, Of the types of thyme Pearl Millet.
Uses of millet
- Food for humans: These grains are a major food in the dry areas in Africa, is cooked as rice, or grind grain like wheat and made of wheat flour called bread putty by the poor bread.
- Beer industry; also in Africa, millet is used in beer industry.
- Feeding; Millet provides poultry and animals with high nutritional value and low cost. This includes cereals and vegetables (leaves, stems, roots or dried straw).
Types of millet
- Pearl Millet Thyme or millet: The Latin scientific name Pennisetum americanum, also called Cattail Millet, or Candlet Millet, is suitable for agriculture in poor, nutrient-poor areas (land unsuitable for desert farming). It is mainly grown for grazing livestock, and the height of millet is about four And its seeds resemble the narrow spike.
- Foxtail Millet smoked the tail of the Italian fox : Hay Millet, whose scientific name is Latin, is called Setaria (Chaetochloa) italica, and is cultivated for hay and seeds spiked to a length of one and a half meters.
- Proso Millet Hog Millet, also known as Panicum miliaceum, is used as food for livestock, poultry and birds. It is cooked with peeled seeds and is a good substitute for rice flour, and it is 30 to 60 cm long.
- Finger Millet : The scientific name in Latin Eleusine coracana, one of the most important food grains in South Asia.
- Little millet : Its scientific name in Latin Panicum miliane, called the Sudanese or Egyptian millet, and is one of the most important food crops in India.
- Brown Brown Millet : The scientific name in Latin is Panicum ramosum, and grows this type in the American continent specifically in the United States of America, and make straw and sponsored by animals and birds.
Production
The world produces about twenty-eight million tons annually, equivalent to 1.5% of the world total grain production, and about 95% of this production is in the continents of Asia and Africa, and the world’s largest production of this type of grain is India, , Followed by Nigeria, producing 6 million tons, Niger two and a half colors, and China, which produces two hundred and two thousand tons, to be the best and highest producers of millet.