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Sweet sorghum is any of the many varieties of the sorghum grass whose stalks have a high sugar content. Sweet sorghum thrives better under drier and warmer conditions than many other crops and is grown primarily for forage, silage, and syrup production. Sweet sorghum syrup is sometimes called "molasses" or "sorghum molasses" in some regions of the U.S., but the term ''molasses'' more properly refers to a different sweet syrup, made as a byproduct of sugarcane or sugar beet sugar extraction.〔Rapuano, Rina. "Sorghum Travels From The South To The Mainstream." NPR. NPR, 12 Sept. 2012. Web. 22 May 2014. 〕〔Bitzer, Morris. Sweet Sorghum for Syrup. Publication. N.p.: U of Kentucky, 2002. Web. 22 May 2014. ==Cultivation== Sweet sorghum has been widely cultivated in the U.S. since the 1850s for use in sweeteners, primarily in the form of sorghum syrup. By the early 1900s, the U.S. produced of sweet sorghum syrup annually. Making syrup from sorghum (as from sugar cane) is heavily labor-intensive. Following World War II, with the declining availability of farm labor, sorghum syrup production fell drastically. Currently, less than are produced annually in the U.S. In India it was introduced in early 1970s by Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute.〔http://www.researchgate.net/publication/2915226_Sweet_sorghum_RD_at_the_Nimbkar_Agricultural_Research_Institute_(NARI)〕 〔http://www.thebetterindia.com/17381/amazing-crop-used-as-fuel-paper-delicious-bread-spread-sweet-sorghum/〕 Presently it is grown on large area as a fodder crop. Most sorghum grown for syrup production is grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee.〔http://ffanewhorizons.org/did-you-know-facts-about-sweet-sorghum/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「sweet sorghum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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