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India and West Africa are the major growers of kodo millet or varagu. It is one of the small millets which is indigenous to Indian sub-continent and domesticated with a cultivation history of more than 3,000 years. The cultivation of kodo millet in India is quite wide spread stretching to many stress in south, west, central and North India.
The crop grows well in shallow as well as drained soils in districts like Trichy, Cuddalore, Vellore, Ramnad, Salem, Dharmapuri, Madurai and Pudukottai of Tamil Nadu. Kodo millet is grown predominantly as sole crop or mixed with red gram, sesamum, niger and black gram. The traditional methods of dehusking is done using earthen mortar with wooden pestle and debraning by hand still persists. Debranned grains are white to dull and resembles rice. Medicinally, kodo millet is used in curing inflammation, diseases of liver, dysentery and considered to keep the body warm.
