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Research Article | Open Access | Peer Review

The Role of Millets in Increasing the Food Production in Madras.

Volume : 35
Issue: Nov-nov
Pages: 311 - 316
Published: November 12, 2023
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Abstract


Millets are a group of small grained cereals which are found to thrive in areas of low rainfall. They are food crops which are complementary to paddy and between paddy and millets, the people and the cattle of this province are fed. There are eight individual crops under the collective name of millets in Madras. They are, Cholam, Cumbu, Ragi and Tenai which are the more important millets and there are four more millets which are of lesser importance, that is Varagu, Samai, Panivaragu and Kuthiravali.

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311 - 316
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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