SORGHUM

Description:
                      The unbeatable quality and alluring taste of indian jowar has made the demand of the sorghum rising up. Sorghum was originally domesticated in Africa and has since spread throughout the globe. Sorghum is rich in protein and carbohydrates.

The plant of sorghum may grow three to fifteen feet high. Before flowering, the plants are quite like maize in general appearance, but can be differentiated from maize by the narrower leaves, the waxy bloom covering the leaves and stem and the better developed root system, these all characters enable it to thrive under drier conditions than maize. The grains are borne in a terminal ear at the top of the stem.

Sorghum is mostly drought and heat resistant. Extremely hot and dry temperatures are suitable for these grains where another crops are hard to grow. It reacts well to rainfall mainly at the time of head forming and grain fill stages.