This question checks whether you can tell minor millets apart from major millets, cereals and pseudocereals grown in India.
- Foxtail millet: A small seeded millet, also called kangni, grown mostly in dry and hilly regions. It falls under the minor millet group along with kodo, little, barnyard and proso millets.
- Buck wheat: Not a grass at all. It is a broadleaved pseudocereal from the Polygonaceae family, so it is not classed as a millet.
- Sorghum: A major millet (jowar), grown across large areas as a staple food and fodder crop, so it belongs to the major, not minor, group.
- Barley: A true winter cereal of the grass family, unrelated to the millet group.
Only foxtail millet fits the definition of a minor millet among the four choices.
Let's summarize:
- Minor millets include foxtail, kodo, little, barnyard and proso millet.
- Buckwheat is a pseudocereal, and sorghum and barley are a major millet and a major cereal respectively.
So the answer is foxtail millet, option 1.