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Sorghum, a crop of substance
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http://oar.icrisat.org/2126/
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Sorghum, a crop of substance
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ICRISAT, -
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Sorghum
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Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench) is the fifth most important cereal crop by area after wheat, rice, maize and barley in the world. Traditionally, a staple food crop for millions of poor in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of Africa and Asia, its importance as a fodder and feed crop for livestock steadily increased over the last decade or two. It is cultivated on marginal, fragile drought-prone environments in SAT. In mid- 1970s, the productivity levels of sorghum were |
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
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2004
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Book
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/2126/1/Sorghum%2C_a_crop_of_substance__International_Crops_Research_Institute_for_the_Semi-Arid_Tropics.pdf
ICRISAT, - (2004) Sorghum, a crop of substance. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. ISBN 92-9066-473-8 |
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