ICRISAT, - (1996) The world sorghum and millet economies facts, trends and outlook. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.
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Sorghum is the world's fifth most important cereal, in terms of both production and area planted. Millet, a general category for several species of smallgrained cereal crops, is the world's seventh most important cereal grain. Roughly 90 percent of the world's sorghum area and 95 percent of the world's millet area lie in the developing countries, mainly in Africa and Asia. These crops are primarily grown in agroecologies subject to low rainfall and drought. Most such areas are unsuitable for the production of other grains unless irrigation is available. Sorghum is widely grown both for food and as a feed grain, while millet is produced almost entirely for food. The world sorghum economy can be broadly categorized under two production and utilization systems. Intensive, commercialized production, mainly for livestock feed, characterize the developed world and parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Hybrid seed, fertilizer and improved water management technologies are used fairly widely, and yields average 3-5 t/ha. Such commercialized production systems cover less than 15 percent of the world's sorghum area, but produce over 40 percent of global output. Roughly 40 percent of this grain is traded on international stockfeed markets. In sharp contrast are the low-input, extensive production systems in most of the developing world (with some exceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean), where sorghum is grown mainly for food. While improved varieties are being adopted in such systems, particularly in Asia, management practices generally remain less intensive than in the commercialized systems. Fertilizer rates are low and the adoption of improved moisture conservation technologies is limited. As a result, average yields remain between 0.5 and 1.0 t/ha in many areas.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Monograph) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | millets, sorghum |
| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Millets Mandate crops > Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Library ICRISAT |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2011 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2018 09:44 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/1024 |
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