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Establishment and maintenance of decentralized sweet sorghum crushing-cumsyrup making unit.

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Title Establishment and maintenance of decentralized sweet sorghum crushing-cumsyrup making unit.
 
Creator Ravinder Reddy, Ch
Ashok Kumar, A
Reddy, B V S
Karuppan Chetty, S M
Sharma, K K
Gowda, C L L
Parthasarathy Rao, P
Wani, S P
Rao, S S
Umakant, A V
Srinivas, I
Ahmed, K
Michael, B
Ramana Reddy, A
Palaniswami, A R
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description In the light of environmental concerns associated with fossil fuel use and the increased
demand for energy in different counties, bio-fuels research and development has come to
center stage. Sweet sorghum is a SMART crop with triple product benefit - food, feed and
fuel. It is a good candidate for commercial ethanol production with potential opportunities
for benefiting the dryland farmers from the emerging bio-fuel markets. The commercial
ethanol production from sweet sorghum requires feedstock supplies for longer periods
in a year. ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Crops) and
DSR (Directorate of Sorghum Research, Rajendranagar, AP, India) and other partners are
working on supply chain management and addressing other issues in the sweet sorghum
ethanol value chain. Principally, sweet sorghum supply chain involves centralized and
decentralized models. Under centralized model farmers supply the sweet sorghum
stalks directly to the distillery where as in decentralized model farmers supply stalks to
Decentralized Crushing-Syrup Making Unit (DCU) located in the village it self. These
stalks are crushed at the DCU and the sweet juice is boiled to produce concentrated syrup
that can be stored for more than 9 months and used for ethanol production, particularly in
the off-season augmenting the feedstock supply to the distillery. Use of DCU for crushing
and syrup production at village is a new idea and there is no publication available on
the requirements for establishment of a DCU and its maintenance. In this bulletin,
attempts have been made to briefly describe the experiences of ICRISAT and partners in
establishment and maintenance of DCU covering all the aspects of DCU, from selection
of site for its establishment, logistical requirements, plant and machinery, operation and
maintenance of DCU and its role in sweet sorghum supply chain management.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2009
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/208/1/510_2009_IB79_Sweet_sorghum.pdf
Ravinder Reddy, Ch and Ashok Kumar, A and Reddy, B V S and Karuppan Chetty, S M and Sharma, K K and Gowda, C L L and Parthasarathy Rao, P and Wani, S P and Rao, S S and Umakant, A V and Srinivas, I and Ahmed, K and Michael, B and Ramana Reddy, A and Palaniswami, A R (2009) Establishment and maintenance of decentralized sweet sorghum crushing-cumsyrup making unit. Project Report. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.