ABSTRACT
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is the world’s fourth major cereal crop in terms of production, and fifth in acreage following wheat, rice, maize, and barley. Sorghum is mostly grown in the semiarid tropics (SAT) of the world as a subsistence dry-land crop by resource-limited farmers under traditional management conditions, thereby recording low productivity compared to the U.S. and Mexico. India grows the largest acreage of sorghum in the world, followed by Nigeria and Sudan, and produces the second largest tonnage after the U.S., with Nigeria being the third largest producer. In most of the regions of India, it is cultivated both as a rainy-and postrainy-season crop.
