SORGHUM BICOLOR X SORGHUM SUDANENSE
Forage sorghum is a crop that fully matches
the needs of the farmer, providing significant agronomic advantages:
The sorghum thanks to the presence of
strongly cutinized leaves that disperse less water and to the branched root
system with good suction capability, is a crop with good resistance to drought.
It’s suitable to all types of soil,
including clayly and bad textured soils (provided that they have sufficient
water reserves) and is not fear by Ostrinia nubilalis or Diabrotica spp.
attacked soils.
It’s a crop not exigent from a nutritional
standpoint because its well developed root system allows it to access to the
nutrients present in different parts of the soil.
It’swith little investment, it provides
forage with excellent nutritional characteristics.
Hybrids of Sorghum bicolor x sudanense,
that combine different characteristics of the parental lines including varieties
and hybrids for grain, with low size, robust culms, welldeveloped panicles, limited tillering and
high lodging resistance.
AGRONOMIC METHODS
Sowing rate: for Sorghum bicolor X
sudanense: in lines without irrigation: 20-30 kg/ha, in lines with irrigation:
35-45 Kg/ha
Depth of sowing: 1,2-2,0 cm
Sowing period: from April to July when the
soil temperature is at least 16 °C
Fertilization: without manure, if needed,
apply during pre-sowing period 40-60 Kg/ha of P2O5 and 80-100 Kg/ha of nitrogen
at sowing time in urea form.
Cropping: at the beginning of flowering
stage, at least 15 cm from the ground, to promote regrowth.
Mixture adaptation: not suitable for
mixture
