February 12, 2016 at 04:09PM Sahelian sorghum: an interesting group of varieties for food and energy production

Sweet sorghum has many advantages for farmers in the Sahel. It is well suited to the local climate and combines human food and animal feed production (grain and leaves) with energy production from its biomass and the sugar in its stems. While not all sorghum varieties have the same potential, and some appear to be multi-purpose. This is the case with some traditional West African landraces. The questions was which ones. Researchers from CIRAD and CERAAS studied 84 traditional sorghum landraces, mostly from Senegal, and pinpointed that ensured a good compromise between grain, sugar and biomass production. They also identified two other groups of landraces that were good for just one use: one for grain production and the other for sugar.

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