Effect of Different Pre-sowing Seed Treatments for Improving Growth, Yield and Yield Attributes in Foxtail Millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv]

Abstract

Millets -The Miracle Grains are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. Small millets are a group of grassy plants with short slender culm and small grains possessing remarkable ability to survive under adverse conditions like limited rainfall, poor soil fertility and land