Hello Hive

It's another day to arise and shine and because of the long activities of the day we had to wake up much earlier than usual.

The sun is often very scourging and as early as 11pm it would have gotten high and unbearable hence we try as much as we can to wake up early in order to get about our work and be able to do some tangible tasks before the sun comes up..

Yesterday we took out some time to rest well and not engage in the stressful harvest process but while at it we went round checking on our crops that may need attention.

It was a pleasant surprise for me when I saw these millet plant for the first time growing very and producing in this part of the country. For the longest time ever we have only grown Sorghum and that made me feel like Sorghum is the only grain of this type of specie that can grow well around here

Growing millet farm.

But here are some Millet plants that proved me wrong, this means that virtually every fertile sandy-loamy soil that grows sorghum can also grow millet.

Growing Sorghum plant

Looking at both crops their plant parts looks similar, method of growth is similar but only the grain they produce that are of different specie. I was thought how millet is more richer in nutrient than Sorghum and the taste and having eating some Millet meals prepared in different forms I actually prefer millet to sorghum.

Both grains are important to us in this part of the world as we consume a lot of staple foods. They either get blended into powder or prepared into some sort of drinks.

Millet is more preferable for preparing baby foods as alot of mothers here know how to prepare the nutrient rich millet meals for their babies. In company of some cow milk, a lot of the local population here has depended on millet meals as baby foods.

Seeing that I can now grow millet in the same types of soil as the ones that grows Sorghum meant so much delight for me, we could learn how to grow this plant right here in this city. While we have gone round growing Sorghum all this while, I am delighted to see a fellow farmer chose go not follow the norm but tried out how to grow Millet which has worked out really fine for him and a lesson for other to learn.