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unusual facts about finger millet



Chilga

The earlier survey found that of the land under cultivation in Chilga, 64.53% was planted in cereals like teff, maize and finger millet, 2.81% in pulses like horse beans, 8.3% in oilseeds like neug, 0.72% in perennial crops like coffee, 0.62% in root crops, 0.45% in vegetables, and 12.57% all other crops.

Devlin Commission

Schemes to prevent cutting down and burning trees and growing finger millet, and to restrict the numbers of cattle owned had begun in that region in 1938, but from 1947 they were increasingly enforced through fines.


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