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Barnyard millet is the fastest growing millet and its origin is probably in eastern India.
Barnyard millet (Japanese millet or billion dollar grass) is mainly grown as a forage grass in the USA and Japan. It is also grown in India, Japan and China as a substitute of rice when paddy fails.
This type of millet is the fastest growing of all millets and produces a crop in six weeks. In the United States it can reach up to eight harvests per year as a forage crop. Barnyard millet is an erect plant 60-130 cm tall with panicle inflorescence made up of 5-15 sessile branches. Spikelets are brownish to purple. Seeds are slightly longer than wide and bigger than wild barnyard grass seeds.
As every kind of millet, barnyard millet is an appropriate food for patients intolerant to gluten causing celiac disease. Seeds of the crop are nutritious. Barnyard millet can produce ripe grain in 45 days from the sowing time under optimal weather conditions. Barnyard millet does not suffer from major fungal disease and is valuable fodder plant.
There are no data available concerning seed analyses.
Small seeds of barnyard millet are processed on groats that are used for preparation of different types of porridges.
Barnyard millet creates a high amount of nutritionally valuable biomass, which can be fed to either domestic or wild animals as forage or fodder.
This crop prefers lighter and drier soils well supplied with micro and macronutrients. Generally barnyard millet can be grown under different conditions in warmer regions but the highest yields (50 times higher than in poor growing conditions) are reached on good fertile soils, which shows its certain adaptability.
See common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)
See common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)
See common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)
See common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)
See common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.)