Hardy sorghum varieties catch on amid adverse climate vagaries

Sorghum covers about 0.8 million hectares of land annually, with average productivity of about 1,000 kg/ha in Tanzania.

By  Dickson Ng’hily

Mwananchi Web Editor

Mwananchi Communications Limited

What you need to know:

  • While sorghum is used mostly for food purposes, its demand has grown rapidly in Tanzania over the past few years as it is widely used to produce clear (lager) beer, non-alcoholic drinks, and bioenergy drink production

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