DESCRIPTION
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana), is an annual grass in the family Poaceae. It is grown for its grain which can be used for food or for brewing.  Its straw can be used as an animal feed. It is a robust tillering grass which grows in tufts,  has erect, light green stems, leaves are dark green, linear and mainly smooth with some hair along the leaf edges and the inflorescence is a cluster of 3–26 ‘fingers’ composed of dense spikelets where the grain, or seed, is produced. Finger millet can reach 1.7 m in height and is harvested after one growing season.
World Production
- Worldwide 2,978,982,008 tonnes of total cereal is produced per year.
- China is the largest total cereal producer in the world with 614,697,756 tonnes production per year.
- United States of America comes second with 421,549,385 tonnes yearly production.
- With 324,300,640 tonnes of production per year, India is the third largest producer of total cereal.
| Country | Production (Tons) | Production per Person (Kg) | Acreage (Hectare) | Yield (Kg / Hectare) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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China | 614,697,756 | 441.004 | 97,908,088 | 6,278.3 |
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United States of America | 421,549,385 | 1,286.133 | 52,492,802 | 8,030.6 |
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India | 324,300,640 | 242.653 | 95,244,530 | 3,404.9 |
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Brazil | 121,222,813 | 578.538 | 22,771,973 | 5,323.3 |
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Russian Federation | 117,868,242 | 802.496 | 43,412,434 | 2,715.1 |
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Indonesia | 85,297,388 | 321.858 | 16,322,662 | 5,225.7 |
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Argentina | 84,948,777 | 1,909.197 | 15,408,405 | 5,513.1 |
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Ukraine | 74,442,160 | 1,761.366 | 14,946,709 | 4,980.5 |
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France | 70,378,890 | 1,045.795 | 9,394,040 | 7,491.9 |
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Canada | 61,134,500 | 1,642.8 | 15,315,300 | 3,991.7 |
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Bangladesh | 59,181,920 | 358.405 | 12,302,025 | 4,810.7 |
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Vietnam | 48,208,141 | 509.277 | 8,462,494 | 5,696.7 |
