The clever farmer makes room for the sorghum in the crop rotation in Hungary

Published 2021년 9월 25일

Tridge summary

The Bábolna Farmers' Days featured an introduction of sorghum hybrids, with both IKR Agrár and variety owners aiming to highlight the plant's benefits for Hungarian farmers. Sorghum is noted for its drought tolerance and superior content values, potentially making it a valuable addition to crop rotation. Lidea, a leading breeder, presented five sorghum hybrids, suitable for feed, food, biogas, or chemical raw materials, and has found market acceptance in the feed industry. RWA Magyarország Kft. also introduced its easy-to-grow and harvest orange-seeded grain sorghum hybrid, Rosario, which offers high yields and low tannin content under favorable conditions.
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The variety presentation of the Bábolna Farmers' Days served as a real curiosity this year, where in addition to corn, the sorghum hybrids of two breeding houses could also be seen. The experts of IKR Agrár and the variety owners who organized the experiment wanted to arouse interest and draw attention to the potential of the plant. Sorghum has all the good qualities that could make it popular, said dr. Erzsébet Kiss, the professional leader of the variety show. But, he added, farmers in Hungary have little confidence in it for the time being, although grain sorghum could play a prominent place in human nutrition and silage sorghum in winter mass feed production. In the former, it is almost experiencing a renaissance, it has become a popular raw material for the reform kitchen, and as a feed, climatic conditions will slowly force farmers to grow it, the correspondent of magyarmezogazdasag.hu briefly stated. More and more professionals are recognizing that it has a place in the ...
Source: Magro

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