Abstract

Pennisetum Typhoideum, the pearl millet, is the second important millet in India. This millet is primarily the cereal of light loams in arens of low rainfall. Whereas Sorghum is mainly single-stalked and single-headed, the pearl millet is the very opposite of sorghum in being many-stalked and many-headed. In addition to this the plant is protogynous. The details of the tillering habit of this plant were studied especi- ally with a view to assay the economic aspect of this equipment. The study was made in two years and four seasons, two of them rainfed and two irrigated. The system of branching and the order of flowering were observed in 46 plants, both rainfed and irrigated. The yield of the various kinds of tiller heads was taken in a total population of 278 plants, 78 of which were of the dry land type and 200 of the irrigated- all chosen at random from some of the typical local varieties.

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