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Introduction.Sorghum Genetic Enhancement: Research Process

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Title Introduction.Sorghum Genetic Enhancement: Research Process
 
Creator Bantilan, M C S
Deb, U K
Gowda, C L L
Reddy, B V S
Obilana, A B
Evenson, R E
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world, after
wheat, maize, rice and barley. It is cultivated in wide geographic areas in the Americas, Africa, Asia
and the Pacific. It is the second major crop (after maize) across all agroecologies in Africa. It is the
third important cereal (after rice and wheat ) in India. Sorghum was grown in 100 countries of the
world in the year 2003, covering an area of approximately 44 million ha with grain production of 59
million t and average productivity of 1.34 t ha-1 (FAO website: http://www.fao.org). Sorghum
occupies 24 m ha in Africa (mostly in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Sudan), 12 m ha in Asia (China,
India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Yemen), 3.5 m ha in Central and South
America (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and Venezuela), 3.1 m ha in the USA
and 0.5 m ha in Australia. Asia and Africa together contributed about 59% (34.5 million t) of the
total world production in 2003. The crop is mainly grown in tropical and subtropical areas where
agroclimatic conditions such as rainfall, soil and temperature are variable. Much of the crop is
produced in the more marginal and stress-prone areas of the semi-arid tropics (SAT), mainly on
smallholdings.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2004
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4820/1/The%20crop%20and%20the%20book%20introduction.pdf
Bantilan, M C S and Deb, U K and Gowda, C L L and Reddy, B V S and Obilana, A B and Evenson, R E (2004) Introduction.Sorghum Genetic Enhancement: Research Process. In: Sorghum Genetic Enhancement: Research Process. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, pp. 5-18. ISBN 92-9066-470-3