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Sorghum is a kind of grass, mostly used in India as fodder plant and eaten in hilly and semi-arid areas.
Sorghum is the "fifth most important cereal crop grown in the world" and used as food in Africa and South Asia.
Sweet sorghum is a cane-like plant with high sugar content. Sweet sorghum thrives under drier and warmer conditions than many other crops. Most sorghum species are drought and heat tolerant and are especially important in arid regions.
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It requires much less water than sugarcane. Only 4,000 cubic metres (cum) of water is required to produce a kilolitre of bio-ethanol, compared to 36,000 cum required for sugarcane.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political organization that does innovative agricultural research and capacity building for sustainable development with a wide array of partners across the globe. ICRISAT's mission is to help empower 600 million poor people to overcome hunger, poverty and a degraded environment in the dry tropics through better agriculture. ICRISAT belongs to the Alliance of Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). More on Sweet Sorghum by ICRISAT
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