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Millets

  • BarleyAround 9000 BC, farmers in the Fertile Crescent began cultivating wild barley. This region spans from North Africa to Tibet.
  • MilletCarl Linnaeus described foxtail millet as Panicum italicum in 1753. Joseph Gaertner named finger millet Eleusine coracana in 1788.