2 for Farming Simulator 22 is out now! Sorghum can be sold directly, used to sorghum flour flour at the grain mill. Sorghum is very popular in the United States and since it’s a highly nutritious crop, it steadily gains more importance around the world in warmer regions.
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Farming Simulator Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Jump to navigation Jump to search “Kaoliang” redirects here. For the liquor made from sorghum, see Kaoliang wine. These plants are used for grain, fibre and fodder. Sorghum has been, for centuries, one of the most important staple foods for millions of poor rural people in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa.
For some impoverished regions of the world, sorghum remains a principal source of energy, protein, vitamins and minerals. Grain sorghum is the third most important cereal crop grown in the United States and the fifth most important cereal crop grown in the world. In 2010, Nigeria was the world’s largest producer of grain sorghum, followed by the United States and India. In developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries such as India, the predominant use of sorghum is as fodder for poultry and cattle. An international effort is under way to improve sorghum farming.
The last wild relatives of commercial sorghum are currently confined to Africa south of the Sahara — although Zohary and Hopf add “perhaps” Yemen and Sudan — indicating its domestication took place there. East Africa into the Indian subcontinent. Despite the antiquity of sorghum, it arrived late to the Near East. It was unknown in the Mediterranean area into Roman times. Tenth century records indicate it was widely grown in Iraq, and became the principal food of Kirman in Persia. Sorghum is well adapted to growth in hot, arid or semiarid areas. Sorghum is used for food, fodder, and the production of alcoholic beverages.
It is drought-tolerant and heat-tolerant, and is especially important in arid regions. The FAO reports that 440,000 square kilometres were devoted worldwide to sorghum production in 2004. FAO reported the United States of America was the top producer of sorghum in 2019, with a harvest of 8. The next four major producers of sorghum, in decreasing quantities, were Nigeria, Ethiopia and Mexico. In the future, use of sorghum may increase in Tanzania, as farmers replace maize with the drought-resistant crop in areas where rainfall declines due to climate change. Following lobbying by the ICRISAT-led Hope Project, the government recently included improved varieties of sorghum in its seed subsidy programme and agreed to provide a fertiliser subsidy programme for sorghum for the first time.