{"id":13778,"date":"2024-05-24T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T04:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:43:40","slug":"sorghum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sorghum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sorghum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Sweet sorghum:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the most <strong>important millet crop<\/strong> occupying the largest area among the cereals next to rice.<\/li>\n<li>One of the key characteristics of sweet sorghum varieties is <strong>their drought resistance. <\/strong>It allows them to enter a dormant state during extended periods of dryness and resume growth afterwards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Required climatic conditions and<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The crop does <strong>not prefer high rainfall<\/strong> as high soil moisture or continuous heavy rain after flowering may hamper sugar increase.<\/li>\n<li>All soils that have medium depth with <strong>good drainage are suited.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Depending on the soil (red, black, laterite and loamy) and its depth water requirement may vary which in turn decide the suitability of the crop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unique features of Sorghum<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has ability to <strong>withstand low water and nitrogen inputs<\/strong>, as well as its <strong>tolerance for salinity<\/strong> and drought stress, makes it an ideal crop for farmers in arid regions.<\/li>\n<li>Research has shown that, under <strong>intense water scarcity conditions<\/strong>, sweet sorghum makes <strong>use of its stalk juice<\/strong> to supplement its plant needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is used in the food industry and its stalk is used for the <strong>production of value-added products like ethanol<\/strong>, syrup and jaggery and bioenriched bagasse as a fodder and as a base material for cogeneration.<\/li>\n<li>It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.<\/li>\n<li>The grains from sweet sorghum are prepared as steamed bread or porridge malt for traditional beer, as well as in commercial beer production across the continent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Ethanol?<\/h3>\n<p>Ethanol is an agricultural by-product which is mainly obtained from the processing of sugar from sugarcane, but also from other sources such as rice husk or maize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/africa\/sweet-sorghum-is-a-hardy-nutritious-biofuel-crop-that-offers-solutions-in-drought-hit-southern-africa-96295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sweet sorghum is a hardy, nutritious, biofuel crop that offers solutions in drought-hit southern Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet sorghum is the most important millet crop occupying the largest area among the cereals next to rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}