Foxtail Millet 500gm ( pack of 12)

Description

Foxta-il Millet /Thinai/Kangni/Rala -500 gm

Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica (synonym Panicum italicum L.), is an annual grass grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted species of millet, and the most grown millet species in Asia. The oldest evidence of foxtail millet cultivation was found along the ancient course of the Yellow River in Cishan, China, carbon dated to be from around 8,000 years before present.^[2][3] Foxtail millet has also been grown in India since antiquity.

Names for foxtail millet in other languages spoken in the countries where it is cultivated include:

• Bengali: কাওন দানা (kaon dana)
• Kannada: ನವಣೆ (navane) or ನವಣಕ್ಕಿ (navanakki)
• Sanskrit: प्रियङ्गुः (priyangu) or कङ्गुः (kangu)^[6]
• Telugu: కొర్రలు (korralu or korra)^[7]
• Hindi: कांगणी (Kangni)
• Punjabi: ਕਂਗਣੀ/کنگنی‎ (Kangni)
• Gujarati: kang
• Japanese: awa (粟)
• Javanese: jewawut
• Georgian: Ghomi (ღომი)
• German: Hirse
• Korean: jo (조). The grain obtained from it is called jopsal (좁쌀), a word that is commonly used in Korean as a metaphor for pettiness or innumerable small things (such as bumps of a skin rash).
• Malay: jewawut
• Malayalam: തിന (thina)
• Mandarin Chinese: su (粟). Also called xiǎomǐ (小米), which is the term commonly used for the grain after it has been husked (husks have been removed); unhusked grain is called guzi (穀子) in Northern China.^[8]
• Marathi: kang or rala (राळं)
• Sinhala: thana haal
• Tamil: தினை (thinai),இறடி,ஏனல்,கங்கு, kavalai, or kambankorai; nuvanam (millet flour). The gruel made from millet, the staple of Ancient Tamils, is called kali, moddak kali, kuul, or sangati.
• Nepali: Kaguno
• Gurung : Tohro