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Mechanization of sweet sorghum production and processing

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Title Mechanization of sweet sorghum production and processing
 
Creator Srinivas, I
Adake, R V
Reddy, B V S
Korwar, G R
Ravinder Reddy, Ch
Venkateswarlu, B
Dange, A
Udayakumar, M
 
Subject Sorghum
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Sweet sorghum is a unique multipurpose crop and of late widely promoted
as biofuel crop. Its ability to produce grains for food/feed and stalks for fuel/
feed makes it one of the popular choices in the dryland regions. This crop is
now widely grown in many of the countries as a feasible biofuel crop under
different climatic conditions because of short its growing period and low
water requirement (Soltani and Almodares 1994) as compared to sugarcane.
When compared to other biofuel crops, sweet sorghum is best suited for
ethanol production because of its higher total reducing sugar content (Huligol
et al. 2004). Further, its suitability for mechanized crop production, seed
propagation and higher ethanol production capacity of sweet sorghum have
drawn the attention of researchers. The bagasse from sweet sorghum after
the extraction of juice has a higher biological value in terms of micronutrients
and minerals than the bagasse from sugarcane when used as animal feed
(Seetharama et al. 2002). It can also be processed as a feed for ruminant
animals. The crushed stalk contains similar levels of cellulose as sugarcane
bagasse, and therefore is a good prospect as raw material for pulp and
briquette making (for fuel purposes). Many attempts were made to use sweet
sorghum for ethanol production in a centralized model of crushing the stalk
for juice at the industry level. However, this model had some difficulties as the
raw material availability was restricted for small period in a year apart from the
problems of transportation of stalk from the farmer’s fields to distillers.
 
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/7373/1/ChapV_mechnization_63-75_2013.pdf
Srinivas, I and Adake, R V and Reddy, B V S and Korwar, G R and Ravinder Reddy, Ch and Venkateswarlu, B and Dange, A and Udayakumar, M (2013) Mechanization of sweet sorghum production and processing. In: Developing a Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Value Chain. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, pp. 63-75. ISBN 978-92-9066-555-7