Minnesota farmer Naima Dhore is starting to grow millet–a resilient cereal grain grown widely in semi-arid regions of the world–because she has an eager market in the large East African communities of the Minneapolis area. It’s part of a broader pattern for Dhore, who migrated to the United States from Somalia as a child and today grows okra, cowpeas, jute and other heritage crops on her 20-acre farm with her husband and children.
Earlier in 2023, Dhore was awarded a North Central SARE Farmer Grant to evaluate best practices in the commercial-scale production and marketing of foxtail and proso millets. She’ll be collaborating with University of Minnesota Extension staff on this project.
Source: sare.org
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Categories: Minnesota, Crops