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	India: Women's Agricultural Labor
		Jowar (large millet) is the principal crop, followed by cotton.
		Jowar grows well in the fl heavy soils, doesn't require much manure, and can be raised year after year on the same land.
		By contrast to Jowar, cotton depletes the soil and is often rotated with Jowar.
	www.ssturdevantphotography.com /India-Thumbs.htm (452 words)

	Cropping Patterns
		The area under the kharif jowar in India is highest in Maharashtra (2.5 m ha), closely followed by madhya Pradesh (2.3 m ha), whereas in each of the states of Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat, the area under this crops is between 1.0 and 1.4 m ha.
		Jowar is mainly grown where rainfall distribution ranges from 10-20 per month at least for 3 to 4 months of the south-westerly monsoon or is still more abundant.
		However, it may be observed that jowar and bajra are grown mostly under identical environmental conditions and both have a wide spectrum adaptability in respect of rainfall, temperature and rainfall.
	www.krishiworld.com /html/crop_pattern3.html (1368 words)

	The Diet
		Jowar is the staple food of this class, and is eaten both raw and cooked.
		For cooking purposes jowar is ground in an ordinary handmill and then passed through a sieve, which separates the finer from the coarser particles.
		Rice, wheat, jowar, pulse, and vegetables are generally the materials of both meals, wheat and jowar being preferred at the second or evening meal.
	www.nagpuronline.com /people/diet.html (765 words)

	Jowar (Sorghum vulgare, Family Gramineae) as medicinal herb in Chhattisgarh, India. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As Jowar is under cultivation in Chhattisgarh and it is consumed as food, and also, the traditional healers are aware of its medicinal uses and properties, I decided to write small and separate article on this herb.
		This is a matter of surprise that the traditional healers of both Jowar growing and non-growing areas are aware of its traditional uses.
		Jowar possess strong allelochemicals to suppress the growth of many problematic weeds but its extracts also damage to crop seedlings.
	www.botanical.com /site/column_poudhia/articles/858.html (551 words)

	thecookscottage: Bhakri / Jowar Roti- Indian flat "bread"
		A few posts ago I wrote about Jowar Bread thinking everone knew how to make a chapathi out of jowar (sorghum).
		But after receiving several emails I promised to write about making bhakri, that filling and tasty roti, made from jowar or bajri flour, which is the staple diet of most Maharashtrians, especially in the rural areas.
		Kamat has this restaurant in Bangalore where they serve jowar bhakri and I really enjoyed it.
	thecookscottage.typepad.com /curry/2006/01/bhakri_jowar_ro.html (554 words)

	Cholam
		Jowar, know for its drought tolerance, is one of the important food and crop of Rajasthan.
		Whereas the Rabi Jowar are usually confined to fl cotton soils, the Kharif crop is grown on lighter soils also.
		During Rabi, the mixing of jowar with safflower is the most common practice.
	www.rajamb.com /Jowar.htm (188 words)

	PIB Press Release
		The Government has advised Jowar (Sorghum) farmers to complete sowing by first week of July or immediately after the first soaking rains of the monsoon, as it is optimum time for the crop.
		Jowar is sown in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana during kharif season.
		For Jowar, 80 kg N and 40 kg P2O5 per hectare is recommended.
	pib.nic.in /release/release.asp?relid=9610 (244 words)

	Pankaj Oudhia - Articles Online
		According to the reference literatures Jowar (Sorghum vulgare) is one of the major millet crops of India.
		The sorghum grain is used as raw material in malting industry and also as source of starch in fermentation industry, for manufacturing industrial alcohol and acetone.
		Jowar in well known agricultural crop in many parts of Chhattisgarh.
	botanical.com /site/column_poudhia/publish/journal.cgi?folder=journal&next=885 (459 words)

	Telugu Portal - What ails the farmers in Vidarbha? - Business - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All this changed with the much-hyped introduction of hybrid varieties of jowar and cotton and chemical fertiliser in the early 1960s.
		Jowar, with shallow roots, used to consume nutrition only from the superficial layer of soil.
		Completing the long pending irrigation projects in three years as promised by the central and state governments, ensuring remunerative prices for farm produce through effective market intervention, boost for cultivation of food crops like jowar through subsidies and creation of a massive network of milk cooperatives are the major steps that must be taken.
	www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/article.php?storyid=10147 (1068 words)

	What ails the farmers in Vidarbha? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All this changed with the much-hyped introduction of hybrid varieties of jowar and cotton and chemical fertiliser in the early 1960s.
		Jowar, with shallow roots, used to consume nutrition only from the superficial layer of soil.
		Completing the long pending irrigation projects in three years as promised by the central and state governments, ensuring remunerative prices for farm produce through effective market intervention, boost for cultivation of food crops like jowar through subsidies and creation of a massive network of milk cooperatives are the major steps that must be taken.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Business/20060813/420413.html (1021 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller-Times / Texas companies market sorghum foods
		Jowar's secretary-treasurer, Armon Lauderback, said the new facility, located up the road from this Texas Panhandle cattle center, already is grinding at full capacity.
		Although Jowar flour lacks the bitterness of feedlot sorghum, its nutty flavor might still be too strong for some who are looking for a completely neutral flour, said Janet Jones, wife of Florida celiac patient Michael Jones.
		Jowar's goal is to become the nation's largest sorghum-based food producer within five years, Miller said.
	www.caller2.com /busarch/bus3704.html (988 words)

	Linking Rivers: Some Elementary Arithmetic
		For that purpose, it is necessary to calculate the capital cost of irrigating an acre or hectare of land under a particular crop.
		An acre of hybrid jowar under lift irrigation requires 18 acre inches of irrigation water at the field end.
		So the annual capital cost of providing one acre of hybrid jowar with irrigation will be the cost of 36 acre inches of water.
	www.countercurrents.org /en-rath280703.htm (1321 words)

	Sorghum engineered for human consumption (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The flour from Jowar's grains is white and it stays white during cooking.
		Jowar Foods is producing a minuscule amount at its current facility, compared to a good-sized wheat flour mill that can crank out 1 million pounds per day.
		Jowar currently markets a whole grain flour, a buttermilk pancake mix, a muffin mix, a brownie mix, and a crunchy breakfast cereal.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/97/09/02/sorghum-flour.2-1.html (1167 words)

	Aayi’s Recipes » Jowar roti(Jolad rotti) - An easy way
		Jolad rotti or Jowar rotti is a must in any North Karnataka(Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Gokak, Bijapur) ‘Lingayat‘ house.
		The dough is prepared by mixing the jowar flour with hot water and then the roti/rotti is spread using the palm.
		They serve jowar roti with 2-3 sides, one of them is always ‘Ennegayi (stuffed brinjal)‘, and butter.
	www.aayisrecipes.com /2006/05/31/jowar-rotijolad-rotti-an-easy-way (864 words)

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		Significant difference with regard to the adoption of Castor and Jowar practices among 7 groups of villages was observed.
		Among the reasons, lack of knowledge was expressed as a chief one for partial and non-adoption of both Jowar and Castor practices by HNB, ORP, PP, and LLP group of villages.
		High cost of inputs was rated as the second reason in the case of Jowar practices by TTC and ORP group of villages, where as HNB, KVK, PP and FSS group of villages rated it as third and fourth and fifth reason respectively.
	www.manage.gov.in /EEI/Research/the833.htm (396 words)

	How to make PDS Work for the Poor
		Their jowar rotis are most of the time eaten with a water dal and/or ground chillies.
		Jowar in Deccan and Rajasthan is used for all festivals : as a fertility grain, as an votive grain, as a thanksgiving grain.
		The jowar thus collected is treated as Community Grain Fund from which PDS needs of the beneficiaries is met.
	www.ddsindia.com /www/howtopds.htm (2463 words)

	Approach Paper To Agriculture In Andhra Pradesh
		After thus advising the jowar farmer to convert his grains into animal feed, the Paper adds insult to injury by saying that Inspite of small areas in Rayalaseema and Telangana Districts, rice assumes importance from the point of food security as well.
		Jowar and other millets grown in large parts of Telangana, North Karnataka and Marathwada has given rise to a great living culture in the areas.
		To think that jowar cultivation can be made remunerative by turning it into cattle feed is a harmful imitation of the American model where all crops ultimately get converted into cattle feed to produce meat.
	www.ddsindia.com /www/approachpaper.htm (4653 words)

	Untitled Document
		The principal crops grown are Rabi jowar, Bajra, Pulses, Oilseeds and Cotton.
		The principal crops grown are Ragi, Jowar, Pulses and Oilseeds.
		Wheat, Rabi jowar and Safflower are cultivated in the Rabi season.
	wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in /energy/paper/TR109/tr109_std2.htm (4222 words)

	jowar - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The leading crops are rice, jowar (a variety of sorghum), maize, peanuts, cotton, and...
		The chief crops include rice, wheat, jowar (a...
		all-india area, production and yield of jowar: year: area (m.hects) production (m.tonnes) yield (kgs/hect) % coverage under irrigation: 1949-50: 15.51: 5.87: 378: 3.4: 1950-51
	uk.encarta.msn.com /jowar.html (159 words)

	India Together: The crops of truth - June 2002
		Crops of jowar are already yellowing and they face a disaster if the skies do not relent.
		A mobile biodiversity yatra that was conducted through 62 villages of Zaheerabad mandal in January aimed at introducing people to the rich biodiversity of crops in the region that had been lost and revived.
		Farmers during the mobile biodiversity yatra accused the government of promoting fertilisers and cash crops and demanded subsidies for food crops like millets and jowar and also that they be introduced in the public distribution system.
	www.indiatogether.org /agriculture/dds/cropsoftruth.htm (2428 words)

	Bawarchi: Health and Nutrition: Cereals - Versatile and Energy Packed Food
		It is the seed or kernel of the grass that is used as food.
		They constitute major foodstuff in the diet of man. The chief staples used are rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, ragi, and maize.
		Jowar is deficient in lysine and has an excess of leucine.
	www.bawarchi.com /health/cereals.html (975 words)

	Winds of Change- An Indian NGO Worker
		Like a caring and understanding mother, Jowar grows very well in even the most undulated, rocky soil with little water retention capacity, depending totally on the rains or the residual water in the soil for the irrigation and feeds the family like a mother with its humble offering.
		Even 2 quintals of Jowar from a small landholding of one bigha (one fourth of a Hectare) provides the poor family a food sufficiency for two months.
		Jowar provides good amount of fodder to the cattle and is used in many places for fuel and thatch as well.
	prashantmishra1.blogspot.com (7895 words)

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		Jowar flour also makes an excellent fry coating for fish, chicken, or beef." This company has additional products: brownie mix, pancake mix, and muffin mix.
		Today is Sara's birthday so I modified a recipe enclosed in the jowar brochure: Chocolate Cake 2 Cups Jowar flour 1 Cup fructose (I'll try it next with stevia extract) 2 tsp aluminum free baking powder 1 tsp.
		Well, my Sindhi cookbook says that you make 'jowar bhath,' That is, cook until tender, and consume it either savoury, seasoned with salt and a tarka of mustard seeds; or sweet, with milk and sugar.
	www.gfrecipes.com /sorghum.txt (685 words)

	jowar roti
		First boil water with salt and switch off the stove and put jowar flour and just roughly mix it and close the pan for 5 minutes.
		Jowar does not have elasticity so its not so easy to roll them flat.
		Modern style(which i use) is just flour the platform and keep the ball of dough and roll with rolling pin(this is not so easy to the beginners because it tears as u try to roll them flat).
	forumhub.mayyam.com /hub/viewlite.php?t=1258 (696 words)

	DNA - Mumbai - Let’s uncork the jowar bubbly: CM - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a first step, he has announced that alcohol could be made from jowar, a cereal grain that is an arid farming produce.
		In Maharashtra, jowar is grown in 45000 hectares.
		Marathwada and Vidarbha, the eastern fringes of the state, are known for arid farming where jowar is a major produce.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1053084 (573 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Rabi rice, jowar sowing still down — Wheat coverage up by 15 lakh ha
		SOWING in rabi rice, jowar, groundnut continues to lag behind on rains in South India.
		Rice acreage is down in Andhra Pradesh, while jowar and groundnut coverage has dipped in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
		Sowing in coarse cereals is down by 1.76 lh with area under jowar declining by 2.96 lh.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/12/26/stories/2005122600790700.htm (426 words)

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		The major field crops grown are paddy, nagli, pigeonpea, gram and jowar.
		In order to study the extent of adoption of improved practices by the trained and untrained tribal farmers of Dang, twelve improved practices of hybrid Jowar crop were selected to know the adoption level of the respondents.
		Table - 1 : Distribution and comparison of respondents according to their extent of adoption of improved crop practices of Jowar crop.
	www.geocities.com /deegau/Gujarat/Waghai.htm (1918 words)

	Sorghum or Jowar as a commodity traded in Indian commodity exchanges
		This proves beneficial for the livestock and hence is the reason of the popularity of the crop as a feed.
		Sorghum is popularly known as "Jowar" in India.
		In 2005-06, the country made exports of 25000 metric tons of jowar and stood at the 6th position among the world’s major exporters of the world.
	www.crnindia.com /commodity/sorghum.html (1631 words)

	India: Women's Agricultural Labor
		Jowar (large millet) is the principal crop, followed by cotton.
		Jowar grows well in the fl heavy soils, doesn't require much manure, and can be raised year after year on the same land.
		By contrast to Jowar, cotton depletes the soil and is often rotated with Jowar.
	www.organicgardens-sequoia.com /India-Thumbs.htm (452 words)

	New-Ventures
		During the hour-long bus rides to and from their previous office job, entrepreneurs Narayana Peesapaty and Rama Devi Rayapudi devised a solution that provides the same convenience of disposable forks, spoons, and knives without the waste: edible cutlery.
		Jowar has traditionally been an important source of nutrients such as folic acid and fiber, yet the domestic consumption of this crop has recently decreased and been replaced by starch-laden Rice.
		BK is helping to revitalize Jowar as consumers, especially those with diabetes, have also used the cutlery as a nutritious snack.
	www.new-ventures.org /?fuseaction=content&IDdocumento=255 (4215 words)

	Sow right to reap rich, farmers told - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was speaking at the Hingari Jowar and Groundnut harvest celebrations held in the catchment area of Hemadala village tank.
		By growing jowar, the fodder needs of cattle will also be met, he said.
		Jowar and groundnut were grown in the catchment area of Hemadala tank on an experimental basis.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan272004/s11.asp (332 words)

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