Colour enhanced SEM of millet flour. Starch granules appear as round particles. Image width: 128 micrometres. Magnification: 780x if the image is printed 10 cm wide. Bar: 20 micrometres. Millets have been important food staples in human history, particularly in Asia and Africa. They have been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10, 000 years. Millets are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favoured due to its productivity and short growing season under dry, high-temperature conditions. The most widely grown millet is pearl millet, which is an important crop in India and parts of Africa. Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are also important crop species. In the | |
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