Botanical name of pearl millet is? (IBPS AFO 2012)

✅Explanation: Pearl millet, scientifically known as Pennisetum glaucum, is a type of cereal grain. It is one of the major millet crops and is widely grown in arid and semiarid regions.

📌Other Options Explanations:

– Zea mays: The botanical name for corn (maize).

– Avena sativa: The botanical name for common oat.

– Eleusine coracana: The botanical name for finger millet.

🔑Key Points:

– Millet is any of numerous types of cereal grasses in the Poaceae family that are grown for their little edible seeds. Millets were farmed more than 4,000 years ago in Asia and Africa, and they were important cereals in Europe during the Middle Ages.

– Millet grains are heavy in carbohydrates, with protein ranging from 6 to 11% and fat ranging from 1.5 to 5%.

– Pearl millet, also known as bajra in India, grows well in low-fertility soils with little moisture and is a popular food crop in India and Africa. Little millet (Panicum sumatrense) is mostly an Indian food crop.

– Sorghum Millet (Jowar) It is commonly called Jowar in India.

– Proso Millet (Chena / Barri) 

– Pearl Millet (Bajra) 

– Foxtail Millet (Kakum / Kangni) 

– Finger Millet (Ragi) 

– Browntop Millet (Korle) 

– Barnyard Millet (Sanwa) 

– Little Millet (Moraiyo)