Talk:Finger millet

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message: Tamil has a name of curakkan(குரக்கன்) too. கேழ் வரகு not used at all in Jaffna. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.243.204 (talk) 19:56, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tamil name 

message: The Gurajati name shown for this grain appears to be in error.  Bajri/Bajra is 'pearl millet', while this article is about 'finger millet' known in India variously as raagi, naachNi, etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by AjitDongre (talk • contribs) 04:19, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gujarati Name 

message: Finger millet is generally seen as not very prone to pests and diseases. Nonetheless, finger millet blast, caused by the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea (anamorph Pyricularia grisea), can locally cause severe damages, especially when untreated. In Uganda, yield losses up to 80% were reported in bad years. The pathogen leads to drying out of leaves, neck rots and ear rots. These symptoms can drastically impair photosynthesis, translocation of photosynthetic assimilates and grain filling and therefore reduce yield and grain quality. Finger millet blast can also infest finger millet weeds such as the closely related Eleusine indica, Eleusine africana or Digitaria spp., Setaria spp. and Doctylocterium spp. Finger millet blast can be controlled with cultural measures, chemical treatments and the use of resistant varieties. Cultural measures suggested by ICRISAT for eastern Africa include finger millet crop rotations with non-host crops like legumes, deep ploughing under of finger millet straw on infected fields, washing of field tools after use to prevent dissemination of the pathogen to non-infected fields, weed control to reduce infections by weed hosts and avoiding of high plant densities by adapted sowing to impede the pathogen dispersal from plant to plant. Chemical measures can be the application of systemic fungicides, such as the active ingredients pyroquilon or tricyclazone or seed dressings with fungicides containing trycyclozole.
Another pathogen of relevance in the finger millet cultivation is the fungus Helminthosporium nodulosum, causing leaf blight.
Important finger millet pests are bird predators, such as quelea in east Africa. The pink stem borer (Sesamia inferens) and the shoot fly (Atherigona milliaceae) are considered as the most relevant insect pests. Measures to control Sesamia inferens are uprooting of infected plants, destroying of stubbles, doing a crop rotation, chemical control or biological measures such as pheromone traps or biological pest control with the use of antagonistic organisms (e.g. Sturmiopsis inferens).
Musa aromatica (talk) 22:16, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diseases and pests 

message: ==== Milling ====
As a first step of processing finger millet can be milled to produce Flour. However, finger millet is difficult to mill due to the small size of the seeds and because the Bran is bound very tightly to the Endosperm. Furthermore the delicate seed can get crushed during the milling. The development of commercial mechanical milling systems for finger millet is challenging. 
Therefore the main product of finger millet is Whole_Grain flour. This has disadvantages such as reduced storage time of the flour due to the oil that is contained in the grain, furthermore the industrial use of whole grain finger millet flour is limited. 
Recently a new milling system was developed in India, which is able to grind finger millet grains. This milling system is called Mini Millet mill. The mini millet mill takes into account the traditional knowledge of the farmers and moistens the seeds half an hour before grinding. Moistening the millet seeds prior to grinding helps to remove the bran mechanically without causing damage to the rest of the seed. The mini millet mill can also be used to process other grains such as Wheat and Sorghum. The Mini Millet Mill could be promising as it yields white flour which can be commercially used . 
==== Malting ====
Another method to process the finger millet grain is germinating the seed. This process is also called Malting_process and is very common in the production of brewed beverages such as Beer. 
When finger millet is germinated, enzymes are activated which transfer starches into carbohydrates such as sugar. Finger millet has good malting activity.
The malted finger millet can be used as a substrate to produce for example gluten-free beer or easily digestible food.
Aniriuq (talk) 20:20, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Processing 

message: Another method to process the finger millet grain is germinating the seed. This process is also called Malting_process and is very common in the production of brewed beverages such as Beer. 
When finger millet is germinated, enzymes are activated which transfer starches into carbohydrates such as sugar. Finger millet has good malting activity.
The malted finger millet can be used as a substrate to produce for example gluten-free beer or easily digestible food.
Aniriuq (talk) 20:20, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malting 

message: Crop does not mature uniformly and hence the harvest is to be taken up in two stages. When the earhead on the main shoot and 50% of the earheads on the crop turn brown, the crop is ready for the first harvest. At the first harvest, all earheads that have turned brown should be cut. After this drying, threshing and cleaning the grains by winnowing. The second harvest is around seven days after the first. All earheads, including the green ones, should be cut. The grains should then be cured to obtain maturity by heaping the harvested earheads in shade for one day without drying, so that the humidity and temperature increase and the grains get cured. After this drying, threshing and cleaning as after the first harvesting.
Musa aromatica (talk) 20:29, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harvest 

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Wonderful! What's an accession? —Tamfang (talk) 00:00, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Accessions are unique samples conserved in a genebank. This shouldn't have been in the summary para. Ideally it would be under a section called 'Conservation' which talks about conservation of finger millet crop diversity. For now I put the statement under Uses --> South Asia --> Nepal Chromista (talk) 01:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  accessions 

message: Is there a reason we're using the Latin name for this crop plant?  "Finger millet" is not only the most common, but the only name in English for this, and it refers exclusively to E. coracana so there's no risk of confusion either. Jpatokal (talk) 02:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename as Finger millet? 

message: It has been proposed that Ragi flour move here; that seems reasonable to me, given that the Ragi flour page is so short; merging would also provide better context and reduce overlap with the material already here. Klbrain (talk) 08:16, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal