


Dual-purpose sweet sorghum varieties offer farmers expanded opportunities for income from selling fodder and sweet juices and syrup as well as grain. Although mainly grown for human consumption in the semi-arid tropics, where it constitutes a staple food for 500 million people in over 30 countries, sorghum stover or crop residue is one of the cereal’s by-products much used as animal feed by the majority of farmers, who also keep cattle strongly dependent on natural pastures and by- roducts from cereals and legumes.