What crop is millet?

The diet is mainly five grains. According to the current classification of five grains, it refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice. Xiaomi is also called Xiaomi, commonly known as Xiaomi, and Xiaomi is also called glutinous rice, glutinous rice and millet. When the millet is shelled, it is sorghum rice with red and white colors. Red is also called wine sorghum, which is mainly used for wine making. White is for eating.

There are many ways to eat millet, which can be ground into rice called "small rice", steamed into rice and porridge, and ground into flour called "millet noodles", which can be used as cakes or other snacks. China Mongolians often use small rice to cook fried rice.

Millet is drought-resistant and barren-tolerant, and it is planted in warm areas such as Asia, Europe, America and Africa all over the world. It is also the main dry land crop in China, and is cultivated in northeast, northwest, southwest, north, east and south China.

Edible value of millet

Millet can not only be eaten directly as food, but also be made into various special foods. Traditional food cakes, millet nests and rice skins in northern Shaanxi, and millet (crispy Baba) in Wuzhong Yanchi, Ningxia, are all made of millet. In the northern culture and even the traditional culture of China, millet occupies an important position and has a strong color.

Millet is mainly spread through seeds under natural conditions, and can be spread in short and medium distances under the action of birds and wind. Millet is a self-pollinating plant, and higher temperature and lower humidity are beneficial to flowering. The sign of millet fruit ripening is that the stems, leaves and ears turn yellow and the ears are dry.