The price of sweet sorghum seeds is 11 to 15 yuan a catty, because the quality of seeds, varieties and other different. Sweet sorghum in China's cultivation for a long time, the distribution of the north from Heilongjiang, south to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces, west from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, east to Jiangsu, Shanghai and other provinces and cities, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River is particularly common.

Sweet sorghum, a variant of grain sorghum in the genus Sorghum of the gramineae family, has a wide range of uses, and it not only produces grain, but also sugar and molasses.

And, sorghum can also be made into wine, alcohol and monosodium glutamate, and the fiber can also make paper. So, how much is the price of sweet sorghum seed on the market? How to sow planting?

How much does the price of sweet sorghum seed on the market cost per pound

The price of sweet sorghum seed is about 11 to 15 yuan per pound, but it varies depending on the quality of the seed, varieties and markets.

Sweet sorghum has a long history of cultivation in China, distributed from Heilongjiang in the north to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces in the south, from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west, and from Jiangsu, Shanghai and other provinces and cities in the east, especially in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, especially common.

But with the improvement of living standards in urban and rural people, and no longer as a staple food, the cultivation area is reduced, now only see sporadic cultivation.

When to sow sweet sorghum

Sweet sorghum sowing period is determined according to the varieties of fertility, ground temperature and soil moisture, the general 5 cm layer of the ground temperature stabilized at 10 ~ 12 ℃, soil moisture content of 15 ~ 20% is appropriate. Late mature varieties of early sowing, early varieties of late sowing .

Generally, about two pounds of seed per mu is used, and the mu yield of sorghum seeds is about 500 pounds, while about 10,000 pounds (5,000 kilograms) of straw is produced.

How to plant sweet sorghum seeds for high yield

①Sweet sorghum seedlings 3 to 4 leaves during the seedling, 5 to 6 leaves period of the seedling, the seedling should be set to do the spacing of the seedlings, to stay strong seedlings, seedlings, do not stay double seedling, the second seedling, should also be pulled out of the stray plants, improve the purity, give full play to the effect of the yield of the good seed.

②Plowing management

Sweet sorghum seedling plowing 2 to 3 times, the first combined with the seedling, 10 to 15 days after the second, before and after the node plowing, and fertilizer, cultivation, and promote the fertility of the enhancement of wind, resistance to fall and soil water retention and moisture retention capacity.

③Timely irrigation

Sweet sorghum seedling water demand accounted for about 10% of the total water demand of the whole life cycle, nodulation spike period accounted for 50%, spike to flowering period accounted for 15%, 20% of the grouting period, maturity period accounted for 5% or so, should be in the nodulation spike period, the flowering period and grouting period of the appropriate amount of water at the right time.

④Reasonable fertilization

(1) sweet sorghum planting should be combined with ground preparation to apply adequate bottom fertilizer, seed fertilizer to phosphorus fertilizer, can be applied 35% special compound fertilizer 30 ~ 35 kg / mu, with the application of organic fertilizer 1500 ~ 2000 kg.

(2) sweet sorghum seedlings can be applied to the seedling fertilizer depending on the seedling situation, the nodulation period can be generally applied to the rotted farm fertilizer 1000 kg / mu, urea 10 ~ 15 kg / mu.

(3) sweet sorghum spike period can be applied 1000 kg of agricultural fertilizer / mu, urea 20 kg / mu.

(4) Sweet sorghum grouting period can be applied 1000 kg/mu of farm fertilizer, urea 8 to 10 kg/mu.

(5) Sweet sorghum tasseling to grouting period, moderate spraying of potassium dihydrogen phosphate, in order to promote early maturity and increase yield.