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Corn farmers across the Midwest are experimenting with drought-resistant millets, while growers in Sub-Saharan Africa are embracing varieties of sorghum and legumes that require less water than other grains.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
Blum is hopeful that consumer demand will encourage more investment in the sorghum and millets industry.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
The analysis showed that until the age of six he ate millets and sorghum grains, known scientifically as C4 crops, which are plentiful in the region where Sarmatians were known to have lived.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2023
Millet has come into fashion as a healthy alternative to wheat or rice after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization named 2023 as the International Year of millets.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023
Yayoi farmers may have practiced double-cropping, with paddies irrigated for rice production in the summer, then the same fields drained for dry-land cultivation of millets, barley, and wheat in the winter.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
