Developing Sweet Sorghum to Meet the Challenge of Food, Energy and Environment

摘要

Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a high-energy crop. It not only produce grain, but alsornproduce stalk contained rich sugar. The grain can be use as food or feed. The sugar in juice of stalkrncan be used to produce sugar, syrup, wine or bio-fuel. The fibre can be used to make pulp or paper.rnThe whole plant can be make excellent silage. Developing sweet sorghum will play an important rolernin promoting the development of agricultural production, livestock husbandry, energy, refiningrnsugar, papermaking and prevent air pollution.