Editing Millet (section)

=== Indian subcontinent ===

Little millet (''Panicum sumatrense'') is believed to have been domesticated around 3000 BC in Indian subcontinent and Kodo millet (''Paspalum scrobiculatum'') around 3700 BC, also in Indian subcontinent.<ref name="weber">{{cite journal |last1=Weber |first1=Steven A. |title=Out of Africa: The Initial Impact of Millets in South Asia |journal=Current Anthropology |date=April 1998 |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=267–274 |doi=10.1086/204725 |s2cid=143024704 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pokharia |first1=Anil K. |last2=Kharakwal |first2=Jeewan Singh |last3=Srivastava |first3=Alka |title=Archaeobotanical evidence of millets in the Indian subcontinent with some observations on their role in the Indus civilization |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |date=February 2014 |volume=42 |pages=442–455 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.029 |bibcode=2014JArSc..42..442P }}</ref> 
Pearl millet had arrived in the [[Indian subcontinent]] by 2000 BC to 1700 BC.<ref name="Manning Pelling Higham 2011"/>
Browntop millet (''Urochloa ramosa'') was likely domesticated in the [[Deccan]] near  the beginning of the third millennium BCE and spread throughout India though was later superseded by other millets.<ref name="GA-browntop"/> Various millets have been mentioned in some of the [[Yajurveda]] texts, identifying [[foxtail millet]] (''priyaṅgu''), [[Barnyard millet]] (''aṇu'') and black [[finger millet]] (''śyāmāka''), indicating that millet cultivation was happening around 1200 BC in India.<ref name="miraroy">{{cite journal |last1=Roy |first1=Mira |title=Agriculture in the Vedic Period |journal=Indian Journal of History of Science |date=2009 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=497–520 |url=https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol44_4_2_MRoy.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol44_4_2_MRoy.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> Upon request by the [[Government of India|Indian Government]] in 2018, the [[Food and Agriculture Organization|Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations]] declared 2023 as [[International Year of Millets]].<ref>{{cite web |title=International Year of Millets 2023 - IYM 2023 |url=https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/international-year-of-millets-unleashing-the-potential-of-millets-for-the-well-being-of-people-and-the-environment |access-date=2022-12-21 |website=Food and Agriculture Organisation}}</ref> 
Cultivation of [[Finger millet]] had spread to South India by 1800 BC.<ref name="Engels Hawkes 1991"/>