Listing description Finger millet or Latin Eleusine coracana is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiard areas in Africa and Asia . It is a tetraploid and self-pollinating species probably evolved from its wild relative Eleusine africana . Detailed description Finger millet is native to the Ethiopian and Ugandan highlands. [3] Interesting crop characterists of finger millet are the ability to withstand cultivation on altitudes over 2000 meters above sea level, its favorable micronutrient contents (high iron and methionine content in particular), its high draught tolerance and a very long storage time of the grains. Storage Once harvested, the seeds keep extremely well and are seldom attacked by insects or moulds . Finger millet can be kept for up to 10 years when it is unthreshed. Some sources report a storage duration up to 50 years under good storage conditions. [2] The lo
CEREALS
A cereal is any grass cultivated for the edible components of its grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis), composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.