This document provides information on various types of millets and their production technologies. It discusses major millets like pearl millet, sorghum, maize, finger millet and their varieties, seed rate, spacing, fertilizer requirements, irrigation needs, pest and disease management. It also summarizes details of minor millets like foxtail millet, little millet, kodo millet, barnyard millet and proso millet and their suitable production practices. The document ends with contact details for the author for any further queries on millet production technologies.
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Production Technology of Millets.ppt
1. Production Technology of Millets
Dr. K. VANANGAMUDI, Ph. D., Post. Doc (USA)
Formerly Dean (Agriculture), Agri. College & Research Institute,
Coimbatore,
Dean, Adhiparashakthi Agricultural College, Kalavai
Professor & Head, Seed Science& Technology,
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641003, Tamil Nadu.
e-mail: vanangamudi.tnau@gmail.com
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2. • Family: Poaceae
• 2n = 20
• Origin: Central America and Mexico
Maize
(Zea mays)
3. • Flint corn: Zea mays indurata - Soft & starchy, Widely
grown in India
• Dent corn: Zea mays indentata - Soft starch, grown in SA
• Sweet corn: Zea mays saccharata – Young cobs for
canning & table purpose
• Flour corn: Zea mays amylacea - Soft endosperm, USA
& SA
• Pop corn: Zea mays everta – Small kernels, explode due
to heating, cultivated in New World
• Waxy corn: Zea mays ceratina – Broken kernel shows
waxy appearance, starch for making adhesive
4. • Seed rate (kg/ha)
Grain: 20
Baby corn: 25
Hybrid: 20
Rainfed crop: 25
• Seed treatment
Chlorpyriphos 20 EC @ 4ml + 0.5g gum in 20ml
of water – To control stem borer
Metalaxyl @ 2g/kg – To control downy mildew &
crazy top
6. • Irrigation
600-700 mm
45-65 DAS - Most critical phase
Critical stages: 6th leaf, tasseling, 50%
silking, dough stages.
• Herbicide
Atrazine @ 500g/ha at 3 DAS
Do not use atrazine, if pulse is intercrop
10. • Spacing (cm)
45 x 15
• Fertilizer (NPK kg/ha)
90:45:45
FYM: 12.5 t/ha
Micronutrient: 12.5 or 25 kg/ha ZnSO4 with sand
• Azospirillum @ 600g/ha or
• Azophos @ 1200g/ha.
11. • 450-650 mm
• Stress mitigation: Spray 3% kaolin or
kaolinite or China clay
• Atrazine @ 500g/ha on 3 DAS
• Major weed: Striga
• 4000-6000
Irrigation
Herbicide
Yield (kg/ha)
12. Q & A
The herbicide which is not used when sorghum
intercroped with pulses is
a. Pendimethalin b. Atrazine
c. Butachlor d. 2, 4 –D
Parasitic weed in sorghum is
a. Dodder b. Striga
c. Cuscutta d. Orabanche
Fertilizer recommendation for rainfed maize is ____ NPK
kg/ha.
a. 60:30:30 b. 40:20:20
c. 70:35:35 d. 100:50:50
13. • Family: Poaceae
• Chromosome: 2n = 24
• Origin: Africa
Pearl millet
(Pennisetum glaucum)
14. • Seed rate (kg/ha)
Irrigated transplanted: 7.5
Direct sown: 10
Rainfed direct sown: 15
• Seed treatment
Carbendazim @ 2g/kg of seed, Azospirillum @
600g/ha, Azophos @ 1200g/ha
• Nursery
7.5 cents for ha
Incorporate nursery with 180 g phorate 10G or 600g
carbofuran 3G
Optimum age of seedlings – 18 DAS
15. • 45 x 15
• Intercrop with pulses: 30 x 15
• 90:45:45
• FYM: 12.5 t/ha
• Azospirillum @ 2 kg/ha
• Azophos @ 4kg/ha mixed with 25 kg of FYM
and 25 kg soil
Spacing (cm)
Fertilizer schedule
(NPK kg/ha)
20. Foxtail millet (Thenai)
Setaria italica
• Seed rate - For line planting: 10 kg/ha
Sowing: 12.5 kg/ha for seed drill
• Spacing: Line planting: 22 x 10 cm
Sowing: 10 cm in between plants
• Weeding: 15 and 40 DAS
• Thinning: Done soon after weeding or before
20 DAS
21. Samai (Little millet)
Panicum sumatrense
• Seed rate - For line planting: 10 kg/ha
Sowing: 12.5 kg/ha for seed drill
• Spacing: Line planting: 25 x 10 cm
Sowing: 10 cm in between plants
• Weeding: 15 and 40 DAS
• Thinning: Done soon after weeding or before
20 DAS
22. Varagu (kodo millet)
Paspalum scrobiculatum
• Seed rate - For line planting: 10 kg/ha
Sowing: 12.5 kg/ha for seed drill
• Spacing: Line planting: 45 x 10 cm
Sowing: 10 cm in between plants
• Weeding: 15 and 40 DAS
• Thinning: Done soon after weeding or before
20 DAS
25. Q & A
Indian Institute of Millets Research is located at
a. Karnal b. Coimbatore
c. Hyderabad d. Mizapur
Crop tolerates salinity of pH upto > 11.0 is
a. Finger millet b. Kodo millet
c. Proso millet d. Foxtail millet
Minor millet suitable for drought conditions
a. Barnyard millet b. Kodo millet
c. Proso millet d. All the above
26. FOR pdf and Online tests
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or
Mail me @
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