The Horror...!!
Posted on 02/08/2023 10:29:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
While others in her Zimbabwean village agonize over a maize crop seemingly headed for failure, Jestina Nyamukunguvengu picks up a hoe and slices through the soil of her fields that are lush green with a pearl millet crop in the African country’s arid Rushinga district.
“These crops don’t get affected by drought, they are quick to flower, and that’s the only way we can beat the drought,” the 59-year old said, smiling broadly. Millets, including sorghum, now take up over two hectares of her land — a patch where maize was once the crop of choice.
Farmers like Nyamukunguvengu in the developing world are on the front lines of a project proposed by India that has led the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization to christen 2023 as “The Year of Millets,” an effort to revive a hardy and healthy crop that has been cultivated for millennia — but was largely elbowed aside by European colonists who favored corn, wheat and other grains. […]
“Fonio is nicknamed the Lazy Farmers crop. That’s how easy it is to grow,” says Pierre Thiam, executive chef and co-founder of New York-based fine-casual food chain Teranga, which features West African cuisine. “When the first rain comes, the farmers only have to go out and just like throw the seeds of fonio … They barely till the soil.” …
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Low rainfall and high temperatures in recent years in part due to climate change, coupled with poor soils, have doused interest in water-guzzling maize. …Oh, the word-humping.
Whew! I thought the UN was eyeing a revival of mullets.
My parakeets sure do love it!
Yep. Finches and canaries too.
Doves love it too. Plant brown top or cat-tail millet, it’s ready around 90 days. Run a bush hog over it and you’ve got a clean field with plenty of grain on the ground.
In before the mulleeee, never mind.
Maize takes more water that millet. But it yields more calories. Millet also uses less fertilizer.
I suspect that the later will be more important soon
Birdseed...how nice.
So break everything so they (glabalists) fix it the way they would like it to be.
Nothing a few desalination facilities and a pipeline can’t cure.
“Low rainfall and high temperatures...”
In Africa? Well color me surprised!
Guess there’s no rains to bless.
What a slap in the face to farmers everywhere.
Clearly, the guy making the comment has no idea what a labor intensive job growing food is.
If it’s that easy to grow and feeds people cheaply and easily, go for it. We have to thwart the globalists attempts to starve us out somehow.
I have long known millet meal as a high protein, high vitamin anti-inflammatory. Actually, they are growing a health food in place of a high starch low protein product. Good for them.
Bring in a bunch of quails and pheasants and doves to fatten up!
Beats eating mostly veggies.
They’re trying to replace other grains with this stuff. And you cheer that on?
Pierre Thiam is a chef, author, and social activist best known for bringing West African cuisine to the global fine dining world. …Yes, he has an agenda. And part of that agenda is looking down his nose at African farmers while getting rich on what they produce, particularly when he’s cooking meals for African kings.
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