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Echinochloa frumentacea

Authority Link Family Liliopsida:Commelinidae:Cyperales:Gramineae Synonyms Echinochloa colona var. frumentacea (Link) Ridl. Common names Editor Ecocrop code 5597

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION A grass with tall, erect culms reaching a height of 90-200 cm. USES It can be grown as a substitute for rice. It can be mixed with rice and fermented to make beer. It can also be grown as a fodder crop. GROWING PERIOD Summer-growing annual grass. The quickest growing of all millets, will produce a crop in about 40-45 days and matures in 120 days. In United States it has produced as many as 8 crops a year. COMMON NAMES Japanese millet, Japanese barnyard millet, Billion dollar grass, White panicum, Siberian millet. FURTHER INF Scientific synonym: E. colonum var frumentacea, E. crusgalli var frumentacea, Panicum frumentacea. Japanese millet is cultivated in South-East Asia. It can be found at elevations between sea level and 1500 m. It is common in cultivations and naturalized in wet grassland. Yields of up to 35 t/ha of green material can be obtained.
Sources
Grassland Index Skerman P 1990 pp 376-378 [TEMP, KTMP, RAIN, DRA, FER, PHO] Bogdan A 1977 pp 128 [USE] Roecklein J 1987 pp 28 [USE] Duke J 1975 pp 15 [PH, RAIN, TEMP] Ibrahim K 1987 pp 136 Kernick M 1961 pp 196 Purseglove J 1972 pp 145-146 [USE]