Small millet Food recipes for healthy life

Millets are nutri cereals comprising of sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet (major millets) foxtail, little, kodo, proso and barnyard millet (minor millets). These are one of the oldest foods known to humanity. These are one of the several speciesof coarse cereal grasses in the family Poaceae, cultivated for their small edible seeds. They are highly nutritious, non-glutinous and not acid forming foods. Hence they are soothing and easy to digest. They...

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How to remove the hard husk from the small millets at home ?

This article is concentrated on how to remove the hard husk from the small Millets at home. The husk of the small Millets like foxtail millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, little millet, porso millet are very hardy when compared to the finger millet and pearl millet. After getting the grains from threshing the small millets, the hard husk has to be removed. There are few machineries which are little bit costlier to remove husk from the small...

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How to grow and harvest foxtail millet

Here is an article on how to grow foxtail millet. Common name: KakunVernacular Names: Foxtail millet (English), Kangni (Hindi), Navane (Kannada), Thinai (Tamil), Kang (Gujarati) and Rala (Marathi).Family: GramineaeIntroduction: Fox tail is also known as Italian millet, and German millet. It is generally grown as a rainfed crop in India. It has an erect leafy stem that grow 60-75 cm tall and bend quite a bit at maturity due to heavy weight of...

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How to grow and harvest barnyard millet

Barnyard millet is a grain crop of lesser importance. It is very drought resistant but is also capable of withstanding water logging conditions. It is generally grown as a rainfed crop. Kudiraivali grains are consumed just like rice. They are also used in making rice pudding (kheer). The digestibility of protein is 40 per cent. The grain is eaten mostly by the poor classes, but sometimes it is brewed the beer. It is also used as feed for cage birds....

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Where to buy small millet seeds for sowing

In this article let us know where to buy small millet seeds for sowing.Small millets are an often overlooked staple food for milliions living in the harshest, food- insecure regions of the developing world. Small millets, a group of six crops comprising of finger millet, kodo millet, little millet, foxtail millet, barnyard millet and proso millet are considered as nutri cereals and are a source of food, feed and fodder. However, there has...

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Millets are drought resilient crop to grow for food security

Millets are small seeded grasses that are hardy aad grow well in dry zones as rainfed crops under marginal conditions of soil fertility. The Millets requires very less water than rice. Do you believe that only 3 to 5 times irrigation is enough for minor Millets to grow in summer season. Hence, growing small Millets like foxtail millet, barnyard millet, kodo millet, porso millet, browntop millet are a good choice for the climate change. They...

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Review on Hand weeder or manual weeder

Would like share Review on Hand weeder or manual weeder which I purchased from Urvi agrotech. Nowadays, there are n number of  agricultural mini tools coming into market. One of those is Hand weeder. The hand weeder is one which is used to eliminate weeds by push pull method in gardens. Hand weeder tool is simple to use and versatile. It is used to remove weeds in and around trees, garden lawn edges, vegetable beds etc.Approximately I purchased...

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Growing food in small space - advantages and disadvantages

Growing food in small space is a dream of most of the people. Already many people are growing vegetables in the available small place. Terrace gardening has become trend nowadays. Urban people are growing their vegetables in terrace and balconies of their apartments. Most of apartment association provide permission to grow vegetables on balconies. There are pros and cons in this prospect. Would like to share few of them. Sharing this,  it's not mean to discourage terrace gardening but to take precautionary steps.Advantages of Terrace...

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How to get seeds or saplings for creating food forest.

For creating your Food forests good quality seeds and saplings should be choosen.Few suggestions on choosing Fruit tree seeds and saplings for food forest:* Find Local fruit trees near by to your locality. You can save the seeds from fruits. (I saved seeds of sapota from nearby farm) * If you go for online store, it is recommended to buy seeds and not saplings. As saplings may be damaged on delivery. ( I received few good saplings as well as damaged one)* Analyse where most of the birds have nests in your locality. Nearby the trees you can...

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Difference between open pollinated seeds and Hybrid seeds

There are so many differences between open pollinated seeds and hybrid seeds. Firstly, let us know about a seed and how it is important for nature. A seed is a reproductive structure containing a fertilized embryonic plant in an arrested state of development. It is in dormancy until sown. Seeds vary in color, shape, size and texture. There are three types of seeds. They are Open pollinated seeds, Hybrid seeds, Genetically modified seeds or GMOs. Open...

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Farm Update April 2020

This month April 2020, we didn't grown much for the farmer markets. We grown few bottle gourds, okra, cucumber for the Kitchen. These are bottle gourds round variety which are growing well. This month we setup a small plot for food security nearly 5 to 6 cents. We planted cow pea, pigeon pea, Ber tree seeds, purple beans, curry leaf, Jasmine flower plants and hibiscus flower plants. Sown chilly kanthri variety and brinjal green variety ...

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How to create Indian food forest part IV vegetables

This article is a continued from How to create Indian Food forests. Here is a list of vegetables you can add for your food forest. Pigeon pea The pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan, family fabaceae) is thought to have originated in India, where it is still widely grown as a food crop. It is also used extensively as a cover crop, green manure, inter crop etc. in many sustainable farming systems in the tropics and subtropics, and in many home gardens in...

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