Sweet sorghum: a new smart biofuel crop that ensures food security
By Maryanne
PATANCHERU, India – In these days of soaring food prices worldwide, imagine a crop that provides food, livestock feed and biofuel. It grows in dry conditions, tolerates heat, salt and waterlogging, and provides steady income for poor farmers.
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Tags: biofuel, feed, food security, India, sorghum
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July 19, 2008 at 5:46 am |
Nairobi, in the modern days of high inflation rates and escalating nutritional disorders in the world, sorghum will bre the saviour cereal crop for mankind.
You can reap good harvest from sorghum ratoon as opposed to other cereals in the world.
February 8, 2009 at 1:49 pm |
Sorghum has several uses and now most africans like myself call it orphan crops, who orphaned sorghum?