Barley is a cereal fruit of angiospermae, monocotyledon plant. It is cultivated and used from ancient times and in a wide variety of climates. Today, it is usedespecially for making bread, beer and feed. According to survey data of 2006, Greece produced 250,000 tons to 1,017 thousand acres. Barley was one of the first grains which have been grown and for thousands years was one of the main foods of human. The seed appeared at the same time like as einkorn and emmer wheat. The current varieties seem to be derived from wild barley, which grows up from the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus to the Red Sea, from North Africa and Crete in the west to Tibet in the east. The oldest findings of wild barley seeds come from Ohalo II, a settlement at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee and are dated from the Epipaleolithic period about 8500 BC.
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