Durra

Durra

Durra ("Sorghum bicolor") is a cereal grass which is extensively cultivated in tropical and semi-tropical countries, where the grain, made into bread, forms an important article of diet.

In non-Arabic-speaking countries it is known by other names, such as Indian millet, African millet, pearl millet, Guinea corn and Kaffir corn. In India it is called "jowari", also spelled "jowaree", "jawari", etc.

Richard Pankhurst reports (citing A.B. Wylde) that in 19th-century Ethiopia, Durra was "often the first crop sown on newly cultivated land", explaining that this cereal did not require the thorough ploughing other crops did, and its roots not only decomposed into a good fertilizer, but they also helped to break up the soil while not exhausting the subsoil. [Richard Pankhurst, "Economic History of Ethiopia" (Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1968), p. 193.]

ee also

* Millet

Notes

External links

* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?35164 USDA GRIN database entry]


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