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Provides information on harvesting, transport, threshing, drying, cleaning, packaging and storage. Bran is separated by fan aspiration as the grain revolves between the abrasive disks. The extent of dehulling depends on the size, moisture content and ...
http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch07-01.htm
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- Grain Sorghum
Worldwide, sorghum is a food grain for humans. In the United States, sorghum is used primarily as a feed grain for livestock. Feed value of grain sorghum is similar to corn. The grain has more protein and fat than corn, but is lower in vitamin A. Whe ...
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/sorghum.html
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- The Broomcorn
Broomcorn Sorghum vulgare var. technicum is a type of sorghum that is used for making brooms and whiskbrooms. It differs from other sorghums in that it produces heads with fibrous seed branches that may be as much as 36 in. long. Although the origin ...
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/broomcorn.html
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- Sorghum and Millet
The applied research supported by IDRC emphasised small scale processing of sorghum and pearl millet near the farm in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and India. The key hardware technology was the dry abrasive disc dehuller, which was able ...
http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/compend/text/ch09-02.htm
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- Sweet sorghum R and D
Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor L. Moench] is the only crop that provides grain and stem that can be used for sugar, alcohol, syrup, jaggery, fodder, fuel, bedding, roofing, fencing, paper and chewing. It has been used for nearly 150 years to produce ...
http://nariphaltan.virtualave.net/sorghum.htm
| | - The Sorghum For Syrup
Sorghum was introduced to the United States from Africa in the early part of the seventeenth century. It was not grown extensively in this country until the 1850s, when the forage variety Black Amber also called Chinese sugarcane was introduced from ...
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/afcm/syrup.html
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- Fertilizer Suggestions
Fertilizer nutrient needs for grain sorghum are based on expected yield, nutrient levels in the soil and fertilizernitrogen costs. Grain sorghum following alfalfa is not likely to benefit from applied nitrogen unless the alfalfa stand was poor. If th ...
http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=67...
| | - The CGIAR Sorghum
Sorghum, an important staple food crop in Africa, South Asia, and Central America, is the fifth major cereal crop in the world after wheat, rice, maize and barley. It is also grown in the United States, Australia, and other developed nations for anim ...
http://www.cgiar.org/impact/research/sorghum.html
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Sorghum Pests and Diseases
