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         As the sweet sorghum cultivars are poor grain yielders and more often poor grain quality types, thus there is need to breed for cultivars of high yielding types with good grain quality traits such as pearly white, large and lustrous grains. The development of sweet sorghum hybrids will receive impetus response to produce more feedstock per drop of water and unit of energy invested. Moreover breeding for photoperiod and thermo-insensitiveness is also getting attention because it will enable plantings at different dates to ensure a year round supply of sweet stalks for ethanol production. The use of brown midrib crop cultivars as feedstocks would reduce the costs of ethanol production; eventually ethanol price will be at competitive advantage over fossil fuel. Also, considering that brown midrib types confer increased rumen digestibility, green fodder and stover from brown midrib crop cultivars would serve as excellent source of rumen dry matter requirement. Hence, it is worth making research investments on developing high biomass yielding brown midrib sorghum hybrids which besides being cheaper source for bio-fuel production, meet fodder needs of subsistence farmer. The major bottleneck with extraction of sweet sorghum juice is that it can’t be stored for longer period of time. Thus there is need to create different options for both the machinery and juice storage, so that syrup could be produced with a long shelf life.

P “Genetic analysis of sugar content, green cane yield and its related traits in sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]”.


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