Data sheet
View crop Data sheet EcoPortSorghum bicolor
| Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Life form | grass | Physiology | single stem |
| Habit | erect | Category | cereals & pseudocereals, forage/pasture, medicinals & aromatic |
| Life span | annual | Plant attributes | grown on large scale, grown on small scale |
| Ecology | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal | Absolute | Optimal | Absolute | ||||
| Min | Max | Min | Max | Soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) | medium (50-150 cm) | |
| Temperat. requir. | 22 | 35 | 8 | 40 | Soil texture | heavy, medium | wide |
| Rainfall (annual) | 400 | 600 | 300 | 700 | Soil fertility | high | low |
| Latitude | 10 | - | 30 | 45 | Soil Al. tox | ||
| Altitude | --- | --- | - | 2500 | Soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) | medium (4-10 dS/m) |
| Soil PH | 5.5 | 7.5 | 5 | 8 | Soil drainage | well (dry spells) | well (dry spells), excessive (dry/moderately dry) |
| Light intensity | very bright | very bright | clear skies | very bright | |||
| Climate zone | tropical wet & dry (Aw), steppe or semiarid (Bs), subtropical dry summer (Cs) | Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killing temp. during rest | no input | Killing temp. early growth | no input |
| Abiotic toler. | Abiotic suscept. | ||
| Introduction risks. |
| Cultivation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||
| Product. system | Crop cycle | 90 | 300 | |
| Cropping system | Subsystem | Companion species | Level of mechanization | Labour intensity |
| ley cropping | ||||
| Uses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Main use | Detailed use | Used part |
| food & beverage | starch | seeds |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | bark |
| animal food (feed) | minerals | leaves |
| medicinal | blood system applications | flowers |
| medicinal | digestive system applications | flowers |
| fuels | non-wood fuel | bark |
| fuels | petroleum substitutes/alcohol | bark |
| fuels | alcohol | bark |