The occurrence of three male-sterile plants is reported. One in a population of ex-Bormu, an improved recommended variety of day-length neutral ‘gero’ bulrush millet and the two others in the selfed progeny of a population of ‘maiwa’ bulrush millet, a short-day photoperiod-sensitive type. Tests confirmed the cytoplasmic-genic nature of the male-sterility in the ‘gero’ population. No tests could be conducted for ‘maiwa’. The transfer of male-sterility from the male-sterile Tift 23A bulrush millet, obtained from the United States, into a ‘maiwa’ population is also reported. After six backcrosses the ‘maiwa’ genotype appeared to have been reconstituted against the background of a male-sterility inducing cytoplasm. ‘Maiwa’ male-sterility maintainer plants have also been identified.