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Sweet sorghum growing domains: Potential for up-scaling

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Title Sweet sorghum growing domains: Potential for up-scaling
 
Creator Rao, P P
Bhagavatula, S
Basavaraj, G
Ravinder Reddy, Ch
Reddy, B V S
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sweet sorghum cultivation as part of the NAIP-ICAR sub-project on the sweet
sorghum to ethanol value chain was being pilot tested in Medak district of
Andhra Pradesh (Map 1). Preliminary analysis of farm-level data from the
project sites indicate that sweet sorghum is a commercially viable crop and
is able to compete with other dryland crops such as grain sorghum, sorghum
and pigeonpea intercrop and maize. One of the challenges before and after
the completion of the project is up-scaling of sweet sorghum production
to larger areas to make a viable alternative complement as feedstock for
ethanol production. In this chapter we examine potential areas where sweet
sorghum cultivation can be taken up in India. This is of course, subject to the
establishment of a distillery in close proximity (50-100 kms from the farms).
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2013
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7333/1/ChapterIX_SweetSorghum_133-140_2013.pdf
Rao, P P and Bhagavatula, S and Basavaraj, G and Ravinder Reddy, Ch and Reddy, B V S (2013) Sweet sorghum growing domains: Potential for up-scaling. In: Developing a Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Value Chain. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, pp. 133-140. ISBN 978-92-9066-555-7.