Table 1.

Different types of millet.

Millet	Scientific name	Common names	Major areas for production	Use
Sorghum	Sorghum bicolor	Great millet, jowar, cholam, jola, jonna, durra, Egyptian millet, feterita, Guinea corn, jwari, juwar, milo, shallu, gaoliang, kaoliang, kafir corn, dura, dari, mtama, solam.	USA, Nigeria, Sudan, Mexico, Ethiopia, India, Argentina, China, Niger, Australia	Grown for food grain in Asia and Africa, for fodder in Americas
Pearl millet	Pennisetum glaucum	Bajra, cattail, bulrush, candlestick, sanyo, munga, seno	India, Western & Central Africa, Eastern & Southern Africa	Grown for food grain in Asia and Africa, for fodder in Americas
Finger millet	Eleusine coracana	Ragi, African, bird's foot, rapoko, Hunsa, wimbi, bulo, telebun, koracan, kurakkan	India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda, Malawi, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Rwanda	Grown for food grain and beer making in Asia and Africa
Foxtail millet	Setaria italica	Italian, German, Hungarian, Siberian, kangani, navane, thanahal	China, Myanmar, India, Eastern Europe	Grown for food grain and fodder
Proso millet	Panicum milliaceum	Common, hog, broom, samai, Russian, panivarigu, panic, maha meneri	Russia, USA, Ukraine, South Korea, Kazakhstan, France, Poland, Belarus, India, Iran	Grown for food grain and bird seed
Little millet	Panicum sumatrense	Blue panic, heen meneri	India	Grown for food grain
Kodo millet	Paspalum scrobiculatum	Varagu, bastard, ditch, naraka, water couch, Indian paspalum, creeping paspalum, amu	India	Grown for food grain
Barnyard millet	Echinochola crus-galli	Japanese, sanwa, sawan, Korean, kweichou	India, Japan, China, Malaysia	Grown for food grain
Tef	Eragrostis tef	Abyssinian lovegrass	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Australia	Grown for food grain, and fodder
Fonio	Digitaria exilis	Fundi, hungry rice, acha	West Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Niger, Togo, Senagal, Mali	Grown for food grain in Africa