Record Details

Sweet sorghum: A Water Saving Bio-Energy Crop

OAR@ICRISAT

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/4835/
 
Title Sweet sorghum: A Water Saving Bio-Energy Crop
 
Creator Reddy, B V S
Kumar, A A
Ramesh, S
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description The United Nations (UN) eightmillennium
development goals (MDGs) provide a
blueprint for improving livelihoods, and preserving natural resources and the
environment with 2015 as target date. The UN member states and the world’s leading
development institutions agreed upon the MDGs. None of them however, have a specific
reference to energy security considering that energy is the fuel of economic prosperity
and hence assist to mitigating poverty. Nonetheless, diversification of the crop uses,
identifying and introducing biofuel
crops may lead to farmers’ incomes, thereby
contributing to eradicating extreme poverty (MDG 1) in rural areas helping 75% of the
world’s 2.5 billion poor (who live on
 
Date 2007
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights —
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4835/1/Sweet%20sorghum%20%20a%20water%20saving%20bioenergy%20crop.pdf
Reddy, B V S and Kumar, A A and Ramesh, S (2007) Sweet sorghum: A Water Saving Bio-Energy Crop. In: International conference on Linkages between Energy and Water Management for Agriculture in Developing Countries, 29-30 January 2007, ICRISAT, Patancheru, India.