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Enabling Markets, Trade and Policies for Enhancing Sorghum Uptake

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8249-3_2
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-8249-3_2
 
Title Enabling Markets, Trade and Policies for Enhancing Sorghum Uptake
 
Creator Parthasarathy Rao, P
Deevi, K C
Birthal, P S
 
Subject Agriculture Policy
Agricultural Marketing
Sorghum
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description A number of dynamic changes are taking place in the sorghum economies
globally in the last two to three decades both in developed and developing regions
where the crop is grown. In Asia, its use as a staple food crop is declining with a
shift in consumption towards rice and wheat. Rising per capita incomes, urbanization,
change in tastes and preferences are driving this change. However, at the
same time, its demand in alternative uses like poultry feed and potable alcohol
manufacture is growing. In recent years driven by the greater awareness of the
health benefits of sorghum, there is also a growing demand for processed
sorghum products particularly in India for ready to use and eat food
products mainly in urban areas (from a low base). To sustain the change in the
sorghum economies (plate to plough), there is a need to reorient the marketing
system by linking farmers to the end users through innovative institutional
arrangements. Policies should ensure sorghum competitiveness on farm and
directly or indirectly promote its use in food processing and alternative
non-food uses.
In developed countries and in Latin American countries, sorghum is mainly
used as feed but its use is fluctuating and variable depending on its price
competitiveness and policies related to trade in feed crops. In the last one to
two decades with governments mandating use of renewable fuels for blending
with gasoline, sorghum along with maize are being used for ethanol production
that has implications for the livestock sector. Policies related to ethanol production
will have implication for sorghum production and trade.
 
Publisher Springer Nature
 
Contributor Pingali, P R
Deevi, K C
Birthal, P S
 
Date 2021-01
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11743/1/10.1007_978-981-15-8249-3.pdf
Parthasarathy Rao, P and Deevi, K C and Birthal, P S (2021) Enabling Markets, Trade and Policies for Enhancing Sorghum Uptake. In: Sorghum in the 21st Century: Food – Fodder – Feed – Fuel for a Rapidly Changing World. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 17-39. ISBN 978-981-15-8248-6