Doura (Noun)
Meaning
Sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Doura was one of the first cultivated forms of sorghum that emerged in Asia.
- Doura or durra sorghum became widely distributed throughout dry regions of North Africa and Asia.
- Historical accounts have long highlighted the reliance on doura in African drylands and beyond.
- Over centuries doura, was preferred as food by those farmers inhabiting drier African landscapes.
- Grain quality varies across cultivated sorghums and regional climate preferences generally decided to doura yield, depending upon type, yield growth etc