Pushpamma, P.
(1993)
Sorghum as food in the semi-arid tropics: studies in the dryland communities of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Technical Report.
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
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Abstract
The need to increase the use of sorghum is explained and the current food system using sorghum is described, looking at improved varieties, marketing, storage, current processing and utilizing methods, and the nutritional status of sorghum foods. The effects of dehulling on productquality and nutrient status are considered, emphasizing that flour from sorghum milled in the right way can compete with wheat and rice flours, at much lower cost, in areas where sorghum is extensively grown. Finally, the problems of using sorghum as a substitute in popular and traditional cerealfoods are considered and the details of successful food enterprises based on sorghum, with active support from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, are described. Various countries have attempted to get this kind of work done; nowhere else has the whole chain of research been so logically andsuccessfully designed and carried through right to the point of successfully promoting, small-scale, sorghum-based, food enterprises
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Monograph
(Technical Report)
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Sorghum bicolor; Food products; Grain processing; Food industry; Marketing; Food consumption; Human nutrition; Tropics; Semiarid zones; India; Andhra Pradesh; Plant breeding; Food storage; Milling industry; Small enterprises, RP8297 |
| Author Affiliation: |
IDRC |
| Subjects: |
Postharvest Management > Food Technology |
| Divisions: |
Sorghum |
| Depositing User: |
Mr Daneti Raju
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| Date Deposited: |
30 Apr 2014 08:55 |
| Last Modified: |
30 Apr 2014 08:55 |
| URI: |
http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12733 |
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