Millets are an ancient Indian staple food, particularly in South India. Browntop millets, also known as signalgrass or small millets, are the most rare of all millets. It is used as both human food and animal feed.
Browntop millets, a native Indian food, grow abundantly in the dryland tracts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh borders, covering districts of Chitradurga, Tumkur, and Chikkaballapura in Karnataka and some areas in Ananthapuram in Andhra Pradesh. In Telugu, browntop millets are known as Andu Korra, while in Kannada, they are known as Korale. These millets can be grown with very little water on degraded soils. Millets are also grown in some areas of the north-central United States.