Sweet sorghum good source for ethanol

The production and use of bio-fuels is growing. The Indian Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has therefore launched a campaign with the dryland farmers, encouraging them to plant sweet sorghum (variety named NTJ-2) for producing ethanol. The harvested sorghum is sold to a private distillery. Sweet sorghum has other benefits when compared to sugarcane and maize. It requires only half of the water required to grow maize and one eighth of the water required to grow sugarcane. The cultivation cost is less when compared to sugarcane... Whole on "checkbiotech.org":[ http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=15204]

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