- Jowar (sorghum) is one of the most important cereal crops in the world and is one of the four major food grains of our country.
- Jowar is the most important crop in Maharashtra occupying the highest area of 55 lakh hectares with 36 per cent of the total cropped area under this crop.
- Sorghum is a genus of numerous species of grasses, some of which are raised for grain and many of which are used as fodder plants either cultivated or as part of pasture.
- Sorghum is called various names in different places in the world. In Western Africa, it is called great millet, kafir corn or guinea corn, which represents a connection with corn or millet. It is called jowar in India, kaolian in China and milo in Spain.
- Jowar is grown both in Kharif and Rabi seasons.
Unlike sugarcane, which is a tropical plant, sweet sorghum can be cultivated in nearly all temperate and tropical climatic areas.
- Sweet sorghum can be sown during June, coinciding with the south-west monsoon, September October during north east monsoon with a rainfall of 500-600 mm well distributed across the growing period and also during summer with assured irrigation.
- A plough or tined implement can be used for primary cultivation of Sorghum. Ploughing is, however, not recommended for sandy soils.
- The United States is the world's largest producer of grain sorghum followed by India, Nigeria, and Mexico. It is a leading cereal grain produced in Africa and is an important food source in India.
- Most sorghum growers tell us stripping the cane prior to cutting results in higher yields of syrup - as much as thirty gallons per acre.
- The productivity of Sweet Sorghum largely depends on many parameters: climatic condition (temperature, precipitation), soil quality, variety of Sweet Sorghum, agronomic practice.
- Sorghum syrup made from cane sorghum is made by squeezing the juice from the cane and cooking off the excess water to obtain a sweet, sticky syrup - a delicacy in many parts of the country.
- A total of 22 sweet sorghum accessions were tested for three years to identify the most promising ones for ethanol production.
- Wet-milling process was devised to isolate readily accessible starch from grain sorghum.
- Malting Process of Sorghum is for the brewing of traditional beer.
- Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the only crop that provides grain and stem that can be used for sugar, alcohol, syrup, jaggery, fodder, fuel, bedding, roofing, fencing, paper and chewing.
- Sweet sorghums have also been widely used for the production of forage and silage for animal feed.
| General- About sorghum
- Pearlywhite Jowar Variety—Sweta
- About white sorghum
- Grain sorghum
- Sorghum Development and Key Growth Stages
Company - Company from Karnataka
- Company from Staffordshire
- Company from Australia
- Company from Nairobi
- Company from Kansas
Consultant - Consultant from London
- Consultant from United kingdom
- Consultant from California
- Consultant from UK
- Consultants list
Process - Evaluation of Corn and Sorghum Distillers Byproducts
- The Economics of Ethanol from Sweet Sorghum Using the MixAlco Process
- Flow analysis for a sorghum brewing fermentation process
- Control of microbial proliferation on sorghum during malting
- Low-Input Wet-Milling of Grain Sorghum for Readily Accessible Starch and Animal Feed
- Processing sweet sorghum for syrup
- Food processing of sorghum
Suppliers - Suppliers of Sorghum
- Exporters of sorghum
- Manufacturers of sorghum
- Sorghum exporters
- Sellingleads of sorghum
- Tradeleads of sorghum
- Sorghum suppliers
Machinery Supplier - Machinery Supplier of Sorghum
- Equipment used by the farmers
- Milling machine suppliers
- Agriculture Equipments suppliers
- Grain machinery suppliers
Buyers - Buyers list of Jowar (Sorghum)
Cultivation - Designing sorghum as a dedicated bioenergy crop
- Sorghum cultivation
- Post harvest profile of jowar
- Syrup Sorghums for Texas
- Jowar flakes
- Sorghum-Sudangrass Hybrids
Application & Product - Sorghum and Switchgrass in Biomass Ethanol Production
- Liquid solutions in sorghum
- Sensitivity to Sorghum Vulgare Pollens in Allergic Bronchial Asthma
- Bread making with malted and fermented sorghum
- Sweet sorghum R&D
- Mycorrhizal symbiosis and response of sorghum plants to combined drought and salinity stresses
- Commerical products of sorghum
- White Sorghum Syrup
Production - Sweet Sorghum Production Technologies
- Sweet Sorghum Productivity
- Production and Yield of Jowar
- Sorghum grain as human food in Africa
- Growing sweet sorghum for syrup
- Arkansas corn and grain sorghum promotion board
| Project- Large bio-ethanol project from Sweet Sorghum in China and Italy
- Bio-energy project
- Integrated management of Striga hermonthica in sorghum
- Jowar flakes
- Assessing potential for small scale sweetner
- Evaluation of Grain Sorghum as a Predator Source for Biological Pest Control in Texas Agroecosystems
Patent - Agrobacterium mediated transformation of sorghum
- Sorghum meal-based biodegradable formulations
- Method for increasing sugar content in sugarcane and sorghum
- Solidified product from sorghum
- Artificial tanning composition comprising Sorghum extracts
Quality - Grain sorghum quality study
- Codex standard for sorghum flour
- United States Standards for Sorghum
- Sorghum insect management
- Quality Assessment of Different Sorghum Varieties for Their Brewing Potential
Properties & Functions - Sorghum and millet phenols and antioxidants
- Some Physical Properties of Samaru Sorghum 17 Grains
- The Effect of Molasses Levels on Quality of Sorghum Silage
- Shear Thinning Properties of Sorghum Starch
- Evaluation of the In Vitro Solubility of Zinc from Sorghum Thick Porridges Prepared by Households in Benin
Technology - Genetic Variability of Sorghum Charcoal Rot Pathogen Assessed by Random DNA Markers
- Objective Yield Techniques for Estimating Grain Sorghum Yields
- Presence of the Cyanogenic Glucoside Dhurrin in Isolated Vacuoles from Sorghum
- Antibody and nucleic acid probe-based techniques for detection of sugarcane streak mosaic virus causing mosaic disease of sugarcane in India
- Rapid Iodine Staining Techniques for Identifying the Waxy Phenotype in Sorghum Grain and Waxy Genotype in Sorghum Pollen
Market Report - Sorghum Lager and Stout Beer
- Africa to fight malnutrition with biofortified sorghum
- Field Demonstration Site Summary
- All India Coordinated Sorghum Improvement Project
- Sorghum Breeder Seed Production Report
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