"ACHA" is a well known crop grown in West Africa 🌍.
It's English name still remains a puzzle to a lot of its consumers up till date. But here you goes, now you know the real English name of ACHA. 😂
Fonio, Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua
Fonio is an indigenous west African crop. There are two cultivated species, viz., D. exilis, known as white fonio, and D. iburua, black fonio.
Fonio is probably the oldest African cereal. White fonio is mainly cultivated from Senegal to Chad and black fonio is grown mainly in Nigeria as well as the northern regions of Togo and Benin. It is the world’s fastest maturing cereal and matures in 60–70 days. Grains are rich in the amino acids