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The Super Food of 21st century :THE MILLET'S

     MILLET'S means a small and coarse cereal plant which adapt in any climate easy to cultivate and rich in nutrient . Example like sorghum,bajra,ragi etc

Millets


Why MILLET'S called the superfood of 21st century

Due the raising of population and the demand of food is also increase but the resources of producing food are limited some of popular crop like maize ,wheat ,rice required more fertilizer and water to grow also it will grown in specific climate and soil 
Nowadays we required such crop which produced in small quantities of water and fertilizers also raised in wide range of soil and provide the optimum Nutrition to the growing population. This need was fullfil by the Millets
  Which are grown in all over word suitable for wide range of climate and soil and best about the Millets are so much nutritive as compared to other cereals.

Which are the Millets?

Millets are belong to graminea family cereals
Sorghum Millet (Jowar)
Pearl Millet (Bajra)
Foxtail Millet (Kakum / Kangni)
Finger Millet (Ragi)
Proso Millet (Chena / Barri)
Browntop Millet (Korle)
Barnyard Millet (Sanwa)
Little Millet (Moraiyo)
Also some pseudo Milletwhich not belong to graminea family but equally nutritive like Amaranth (Ramdana/Rajgira), Buckwheat( Kuttu)


What is deffernce between the cereals and Millets?

Genrally Cereals are tasty than the and are cultivation requirment  is high as compare to Millet are nutritive than Cereals and less requirment to grow  



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