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Effect of Sowing Dates on Growth, Yield and Juice Quality of Sweet Sorghum Genotypes in Kharif Season (Sorghum Bicolor (L.) Moench)

Abstract

Globally, Sweet sorghums are high energy crops with better growth and yield than fodder sorghum and corn. These are more palatable owing to their sweetness and highly preferred by livestock. Besides, bio-fuel generation these are gaining popularity as fodder crops. In India, sweet sorghums are encouraged for fuel production because of its wider adaptability, from temperate irrigated to dry and high rainfall areas and from warm humid to dry cold environment. Optimum date of sowing is an important parameter, which affect the growth and yield attributes of sweet sorghum among other cultivation practices. To find out optimum date of sowing for kharif season twenty three sweet sorghum genotypes and one hybrid were examined at all India Coordinated Sorghum Improvement Project, MPKV, Rahuri (Maharashtra). From the experiment, it was found that no. of days to attain different phenological stages, plant height, leaf area, PAR, °brix, juice yield, computed ethanol, harvest index (%) as well as biological yield was significantly influenced.

Gaurav Pagire

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