Foxtail millet
Foxtail
millet, scientific name Setaria italic (synonym
Panicum italicum L.), is an annual
grass grown for human food. It is the second most widely planted species of
millet, and the most grown millet species in Asia. The oldest evidence of foxtail millet cultivation was found along the
ancient course of the Yellow River in Cishan,China, carbon dated to be from
around 8,000 years before present.[2][3] Foxtail millet
has also been grown in India since antiquity.