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Sweet Sorghum Crop Production and Management Practices. Information Bulletin No. 91

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Title Sweet Sorghum Crop Production and Management Practices. Information Bulletin No. 91
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important dryland cereal
grown in India (7.8 m ha) and around the world (45.8 m ha) for food, feed,
fodder, bioenergy and fiber. Sweet sorghums are similar to grain sorghum
and are generally tall (3.0-4.0m), late maturing and relatively photoperiod
sensitive. They produce a good grain yield with high stalk yields (70-75% of
fresh biomass).
Sweet sorghum is a new generation bioenergy crop that has potential to
accumulate sugars (10-15%) in its stalk similar to sugarcane, apart from
producing grain. The bagasse (left over stalk after extraction of juice) can be
used as animal feed or vermi-composting or can be used to generate power.
The crop has the ability to adapt to various agroclimatic conditions and is
reasonably tolerant to drought and saline-alkaline conditions. The crop
is raised from seeds and is of short duration (115-120 days, ie, 4 months
vs. 12-18 months of sugarcane) making it amenable for multiple cropping
systems. Water use or seasonal evapotranspiration for sorghum is 508 mm
while it is 1257......
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.
 
Contributor Reddy, B V S
Ravinder Reddy, Ch
Kumar, A A
 
Date 2012
 
Type Book
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5924/1/SSCropProduction_2012.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Ravinder Reddy, Ch and Kumar, A A, eds. (2012) Sweet Sorghum Crop Production and Management Practices. Information Bulletin No. 91. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics., Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. ISBN 9789290665472