Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Rain only
Mature size
60–120 cm
First harvest
Eighty days
Family
Poaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
food
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Broadcast on rough ground; it needs no seedbed.
One of the small millets of tribal central India, quick and undemanding.
Growing it
Broadcast on rough ground; it needs no seedbed.
What it is for
Kutki rice and porridge; a genuine climate-resilient grain.