Millet Production Growing in Africa
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Description: Overview of the increasing production of millet in the continent.
Millet Production Growing in Africa Millet Production Growing in Africa ICRISAT Designs Improved Cropping Systems for Sahelian Millet, Cowpeas Gradually, Africa is becoming the world's leading producer of millet. In the quarter century since the early 1970s, African millet harvests increased 22 percent, whereas other regions registered substantial production declines. The percentage of millet used for domestic food consumption is rising steadily in Africa, but the vast and still expanding millet areas continue to produce low, but steady, yields with very few fertilizer inputs. Soon, Africa is likely to have the largest millet acreage of all developing regions with yields only slightly below the developing country average. With 20 kilograms a year, Africans eat four times as much millet per capita as the second largest consumers, Asians.
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