Year: 2020 | Month: June | Volume 7 | Issue 1
Agronomic Management of Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) in India for Production Sustainability: A Review
Sagar Maitra
Sandipan Pine
Tanmoy Shankar
Arunabha Pal
Biswajit Pramanick
DOI:10.30954/2347-9655.01.2020.3
Abstract:
Since ancient period, different small millets are in use as food and animal feed. But during last few decades, fine cereals and their value-added products were promoted in India and millets were neglected. Recently, small millets are recognized as nutri-cereals due to their nutritional values. These crops are ecologically sound, can enrich agro-diversity, check erosion in arid regions, sequester carbon and assure food and nutritional security to smallholders in drylands. But productivity of small millets is less compared to other cereals. Like other small millets, foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.) is also rich in nutrients and as a short duration crop it fits to different cropping systems. Sufficient research work has not been carried out on agronomic management targeting higher productivity. An initiative has been taken to gather information from available literature on improved agronomic management of foxtail millet and presented in the article. Further, the article highlighted the future scope of research on the crop.
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