Australia: Sesame could rival mungbeans and chickpeas as a crop in the near future

CQ University's Dr Tieneke Trotter at Agtech24 in Emerald with some bottles of sesame oil. Picture by Judith Maizey As interest grows in emerging crops, one such crop, sesame, could become as big as mungbeans and chickpeas. All articles from our website & app The digital version of This Week's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox All articles from the other agricultural news sites in your area CQ University senior lecturer in agriculture Dr Tieneke Trotter said she did not sesame becoming the major industry of any area. "We see it fitting into a cropping rotation, it fits really neatly into a cotton rotation where producers are growing cotton and are looking for an alternative or a rotation type crop," she said. "We see it fitting into the sugar rotation as well (and) we see it potentially becoming the size of something that could be similar to maybe chickpeas or mungbeans or even sunflowers in its day." Dr Trotter said as sesame was an oil seed crop it could be used as ...