Finger millet
Finger millet in ESA is primarily a cash crop in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, sold for food processing (flour) but used for domestic consumption in Ethiopia (Orr et al. 2017; Gierend and Orr 2015). Its higher price makes it unsuitable for industrial uses or livestock feed.
CURRENT USES
| Non-market | Domestic market | Export market | ||||
| Subsistence | Fuelwood | Fodder | Food/food processing | Feed | Alcohol | |
| X | X | |||||
IMPORTANT TRAITS NEEDED TO MEET ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES AND END USES
| Societal | Resistance to environmental stresses | End uses | ||
| Nutrition and health | Biotic | Abiotic | Market | Non-market |
| High Fe, Zn, folate | Blast | Drought (early maturity) | Yield, taste, colour | |
