DECRYPTION – The scientific community continues to praise the advantages of this cereal, among the oldest in history, resistant to heat waves.
It is one of the oldest cereals in history. 10,000 years ago, when the Fertile Crescent began growing wheat, the mountainous regions of northern China opened up to millet, which then took root in India, Central Asia, Africa… The Romans in consumed in antiquity. And then over the centuries, millet is eclipsed by wheat, rice and corn in particular. In India, the green revolution launched in the 1960s dislodged it in favor of more productive but water-intensive varieties of rice and wheat.
Climate change, with its attendant droughts and floods, is putting millet back in the spotlight. India, the world’s largest producer with 15 million tonnes, convinced the UN to declare 2023 the “Year of Millet”. The scientific community continues to praise the benefits of this heat-resistant cereal. Growing rice requires about two and a half times as much water, according to the International Crops Research Institute…
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