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    Agronomic Biofortification of Pearl millet with Zn and Fe by using FYM and Micronutrient Fertilizers in Hyper Arid Region
    (COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE SWAMI KESHWANAND RAJASTHAN AGRICULTURALUNIVERSITY, BIKANER, 2022) BASU DEVI YADAV; S. R. Yadav
    Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. emend Stuntz) is the most widely grown drought tolerant warm season coarse grain cereal and is considered as a Poor man’s food crop. Pearl millet is the world’s hardiest warm season food crop. Globally, it rank sixth after rice, wheat, maize, barley and sorghum in terms of area and share 42 per cent of total world production (Ramesh et al. 2006; Jain et al. 2018) and first under the category of millets in India, in terms of area, production and productivity and contributing 8.89% to total production of coarse cereals (NRAA, 2012; Prasad et al. 2015). In Asia, it is an important kharif food crop of India, Pakistan, China and south eastern Asia. Pearl millet is one of the fourth most important crop in India after rice, wheat and sorghum which flourishes well even under adverse conditions of weather, low soil fertility and alkaline soils (Singh et al. 2017; Shekhawat and Kumawat, 2017). Pearl millet is providing nutritional security as it has higher protein content (12.6%), more balanced amino acid profile, and contribute about one third of iron and zinc requirements. Pearl millet grains contains fat (5%), carbohydrate (67%) and minerals, particularly iron (2.8%) (Manga and Kumar, 2011).