Bajra is a traditional Hindi name for the Pennisetum glaucum crop — also known as pearl millet. It’s likewise known as dukn, cumbu, gero, sanio, kambu, babala, or bulrush millet (1). The grain is ...

With a coverage of over 16 lakh hectares (lh) in the past month, sowing of summer (Zaid season) crops, which will end by May, has reached 42.68 lh as of March 20. This is 2 per cent less than 43.69 lh ...

The sowing under summer (Zaid season) crops, which will be completed this week, reached 86.02 lakh hectares (lh) as of May 22, which is 3 per cent more than the 83.50 lh reported in the year-ago ...