Comments on: Sweet Sorghum : A New “Smart Biofuel Crop”

By: Hal Debor

Hal Debor — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:26:00 +0000

Brasil reports the cost of producing ethanol from sugar cane at $0.20 to $0.22/liter or $0.76 to $0.83/gallon and this includes plant depreciation costs. These ethanol plants in Brasil operate 4 to 5 months of the year and are idle the rest of the year. in the case of swet sorghum, if you are in the right climate, the ethanol plant will operate 12 month of the year as you can get over 3 crops a year. Production costs fro ethanol from sweet sorghum should be less than from sugar cane.

By: Hal Debor

Hal Debor — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:59 +0000

Sweet Sorghum needs water to produce the juice, at least 300mm of rainfall or irrigation is required to grow sweet sorghum.

By: Candida Overgrowth Remedy

Candida Overgrowth Remedy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:32:07 +0000

I like the fact that Sweet sorghum requires very little moisture. It seems like precipitation volume has significantly decreased in our area and this crop could very well be a viable alternative.

By: Alvin S. Opril

Alvin S. Opril — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:34:55 +0000

To the author of this article, thank you for these informations. It is quite informative. However, it seems likewise that i need more information about the feasiblility and procedure of making jaggery, syrup and wine perhaps out of stem juice of sweet sorghum including. Also, the usefulness of its bagasse as alterative feedstuff to dairy murrah, preferably in the Phiippine condition. I am an Agriculturist, anyway, making a research about sweet sorghum utilization. Thank you and I look forward to have a link with you! More power!

By: Hal Debor

Hal Debor — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:52:25 +0000

You can get sweet sorghum seeds from Dr. Morris Bitzer at the University of Kentucky, US. His email address is mbitzer@uky.edu.

By: ALESSANDRO

ALESSANDRO — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:13:40 +0000

I am attending a PhD in an Italian university, I’m doing research on sweet sorghum for bioethanol production. I have some information about universities or institutions that could vendre zucchrino sorghum seed, as interested in buying. thanks await your news.

By: Cure Candida

Cure Candida — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:59:04 +0000

So they can use Sorghum for fuel now as well? That’s amazing! If they could feed more people this gluten free grain alternative in mass quantity while also deriving ethanol, that would be perfect!

By: Hal Debor

Hal Debor — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:34:24 +0000

For a lot of information about sweet sorghum look at the Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Association web site http://www.sseassociation.org. Hal Debor President SSEA

By: Hal Debor

Hal Debor — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:31:45 +0000

How can the cost to produce ethanol using sweet sorghum be $1.74/gallon when the trading price is $1.80/gallon? In the USA the cost to produce ethnaol from corn is quoted as $1.10 to $1.20/gallon. How can it be $2.12 as you publish?

By: Paramjit

Paramjit — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:27:17 +0000

Dear S.P. Kamuntu,

You may visit the website of Praj Industries, an India based company, which has done extensive research on SWEET Sorghum & commercial implementation in India and Nigeria.

Regards/Paramjit

By: S.P. Kamuntu

S.P. Kamuntu — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:33:01 +0000

dear sir,
The artical is infromative intersting. Actally I am collecting germplasm of landraces partcularly in the lake zone of Tanzania as my study on evaluation of sweet sorghum in my country. So I am pleased to find this article and I would like to link with people who are doing research on the crop to know more on current status. Currently I am MSc student

By: Paramjit

Paramjit — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:24:46 +0000

If Sweet sorghum is so HOT, why has it not caught on.

Why are US farmers suffering & continuing using CORN for ethanol.

What is the latest progress report from Tata-Chemicals Sorghum-Ethanol plant ? How much ethanol are they producing per day ?

(please email me response to my queries..thanks)

By: michael jay

michael jay — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:55:44 +0000

the article is very informative.,.and im sure my report will deserve a high grade bec.of this article.,tnx a lot

By: oscar enrico

oscar enrico — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:48:14 +0000

For purposes of research it is possible send me 50gs of seeds of varieties of sweet sorghum.

By: oscar enrico

oscar enrico — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:42:40 +0000

Para fines de investigacion es posible me envien 50gs de semillas de variedades de sorgo dulse.

Gracias
Saludos
Oscar Enrico Rep. Argentina