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Message: [QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 74189, member: 636"] Zimbabwe's agriculture minister went off at a conference in Bulawayo about how calling sorghum and millet small grains is completely backwards. Anxious Masuka said the label makes drought-resistant crops sound unimportant when they actually pack better nutrients than corn and handle climate disasters way better. The country pushed traditional grain production from 8 percent of all cereals up to 28 percent over five years, and sorghum output exploded by over 400 percent while pearl millet jumped more than 700 percent last season. Masuka wants chefs and restaurants putting traditional grains on menus to change how young people think about the food, since most folks still prefer maize and rice. Over 1.3 million farmers in dry regions will get free seeds through the presidential program, and the minister praised scientists developing better crop varieties that resist pests and birds. [/QUOTE]