barnyard millet การใช้
- The ingredients for Zaotang can be millet, barnyard millet, rice, corn or barley malt.
- Japanese barnyard millet is believed to have been domesticated from " Echinochloa crus-galli ".
- However, the development of rice varieties that can withstand cold has led to a sharp decline in its cultivation of Japanese barnyard millet, in favor of rice.
- Proso is an annual grass like all other millets, but it is not closely related to pearl millet, foxtail millet, finger millet, or the barnyard millets.
- The ICRISAT Genebank serves as a repository for the collection of germplasm of the six mandate crops sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut; and five small millets foxtail millet, little millet, kodo millet, proso millet and barnyard millet.
- Similarly, millets have been mentioned in some of the oldest extant Yajurveda texts, identifying foxtail millet ( " priyangava " ), Barnyard millet ( " aanava " ) and black finger millet ( " shyaamaka " ), indicating that millet consumption was very common, pre-dating to 4500 BC, during the Indian Bronze Age.
- Millets have formed the staple food of Dravidian ( Southern part of India ) population, of which pearl millet formed the most commonly consumed along with Finger millet, proso millet, little millet, kodo millet, Indian barnyard millet and foxtail millet all of which are still commonly cultivated & consumed in India especially Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra.