Pearl Millet/ Bajra

• Botanical Name: Pennisetum glaucum ^{IBPS AFO 2012}
• Family: Poaceae
• Chromosome: 2n = 14
• Origin: Africa
• Also called as Poor Man’s Food.
• Cross pollinated crop due to Protogynous condition.

Climate

• Bajra is a warm ☀️ weather crop.
• Best suited temperature for crop growth is between 27-30°C.
• Requirement of rainfall throughout growth period is 250-350 mm.
• It can tolerate hot temperature.
• Pearl millet is the most drought tolerant crop among cereals and millets.
• The rainfall at flowering time is harmful as it washes off the pollen and consequently there is poor seed setting.
• Bajra is a short-day plant.
• Seed rate: 4-5 kg/ha
• Fodder Purpose: 10-12 kg/ha
• Sowing: It is chiefly a rainfed crop during monsoon season. In most of the states is June-July.
• Spacing: 45 x 12-15 cm.
• Plant population: Approx 1,66,000 plants/ha.
• Seeds should be sown about 2-3 cm deep.
• Germination: Hypogeal

  

Soil

• It does best on well drained sandy loams.
• It is sensitive to water-logging.
• Pearl millet is sensitive to acidic soils.
• 80 per cent phosphorus in grain stored in the form of phytate.

Manure & Fertilizers

• 1st Hybrid: HB-1 (Tift 23A x BIL 3B) in 1965. (Hybrid Bajra -1)
• HB-4: 1st hybrid developed by using local male parent, duration 80-85 days.
• Productivity high in UP > Gujarat > Haryana
• Weed control: Atrazine/propazine @ 0.5 kg/ ha as pre-emergence.

Jerking

It is done 20-25 days after transplanting or 30-40 days after direct sowing. The early formed ear heads of the first tillers are pulled out or removed which will result in uniform flowering of all the tillers.

Disease

Yield

• Harvest the crop when grains are hard enough having about 20 % moisture.
• Rain fed crop yields about 12 to 16 quintals/ha.
• Irrigated crop yields about 25 to 35 quintals/ha.
• Fodder: 300-400q/ha.

Other Millets

• Minor millets are mostly grown in dryland areas.

Cheena/Proso millet

• Panicum miliacearum

  

Little millet

• Panicum sumatrense

  

Foxtail/Italian/Jerman millet/Kakun

• Seteria italica

  

Kodo

• It is Coarsest millet
• Paspulum scrobiculatum

  

Madua/Ragi/Finger millet

• Eleusine coracana

  

Sawan/Barnyard millet

• Echinochloa frumentance

  

Japanese millet

• Echinocloa escilenta

  

Pearl Millet/ Bajra

• Botanical Name: Pennisetum glaucum ^{IBPS AFO 2012}
• Family: Poaceae
• Chromosome: 2n = 14
• Origin: Africa
• Also called as Poor Man’s Food.
• Cross pollinated crop due to Protogynous condition.

Climate

• Bajra is a warm ☀️ weather crop.
• Best suited temperature for crop growth is between 27-30°C.
• Requirement of rainfall throughout growth period is 250-350 mm.
• It can tolerate hot temperature.
• Pearl millet is the most drought tolerant crop among cereals and millets.
• The rainfall at flowering time is harmful as it washes off the pollen and consequently there is poor seed setting.
• Bajra is a short-day plant.
• Seed rate: 4-5 kg/ha
• Fodder Purpose: 10-12 kg/ha
• Sowing: It is chiefly a rainfed crop during monsoon season. In most of the states is June-July.
• Spacing: 45 x 12-15 cm.
• Plant …

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