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19 April 2023

INRAE Research on Sorghum Grain Digestibility

Hamza Mameri is in charge with INRAE (processing department) research and is part of the  Soft Matter (I2M) Engineering team working within the Joint Research Unit of the IATE (centre for Agropolymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies). His employment by the JRU five years ago resulted in several multidisciplinary works focusing on improving the quality of […]

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02 March 2022

Eleven Sorghum-based Products

  Nothing is wasted, nothing is created; everything gets turned into something else. This is the conviction held by the thirteen industry operators who presented their processing methods and sorghum-based products at the conference. Food, bioenergy, and feed: from votka to pet food, sorghum offers a wide array of possibilities. In their thirteen presentations, the […]

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23 September 2021

Everything in sorghum can be processed

  With sorghum, nothing is lost, it can all be processed Sorghum is interesting for a number of reasons. It offers numerous markets (human food and animal feed, bioenergies, biomaterials, etc.) which, in addition, are not exclusive. A single sorghum crop provides grain for human food, soluble sugars can be extracted from the stem juices […]

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26 July 2021

For the agro-industrial operators, sorghum has more than one string to its bow.

  Not only does it offer various market outlets (as a food for humans and animals, bioenergy, biomaterials, etc), but, in addition, each harvest can serve several markets at the same time. From a single sorghum crop, the grain can be used as a human food source, the soluble sugars extracted from the juices in […]

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03 May 2021

Each market its own sorghum. Do you know them?

Sorghum, a large family in which each member has a strong personality Grain Sorghum A small-sized sorghum plant selected for grain production. Grain Sorghum varieties have a high yield potential and excellent resistance to diseases causing lodging. It is mainly used for poultry and pig (monogastric) feed and secondarily for human food, but also in […]

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03 May 2021

Sorghum all around

In Turkey, variety trials and 2 web conferences. On 24th March and 26th April, the two online conferences organized by Sorhum ID met a great success: 100 people connected to attend the technical presentations delivered by experts and seed managers. During these conferences, participants had a discussion on the experimental platforms set up in Terkirdağ […]

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10 March 2021

Sorghum has more than one tricks to offer

  Couleurs de Plantes has been a spin-off of the Rochefort Horticultural CRITT in France (Regional Centre of Innovation and Technology Transfer), which launched an R&D programme to promote dyeing plants and vegetal dyes. In this research centre considered as a national player in the French plant field, the engineering team has developed processes for […]

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