Sorghum is drought-tolerant and waterlogging-tolerant, with deep roots and developed fibrous roots. Therefore, sorghum is very suitable for arid and low fertility land. Sorghum straw can be woven into a seat, and if it is inserted with a red straw pattern, it will still look good. The prickly heat (upper part) can be used as hedges, rice baskets and sewing baskets for girls to do needlework. At the top are the seeds and fruits of sorghum. The riddle has a cloud:? The green bamboo pole has eighteen knots, and there is a red-faced Guan Sir Zhong sitting on it? . Taking off the lines is called broom hair, which can be used as a broom or as a handle for washing pots. Of course, sorghum stalks connected with hemp ropes can also dry things, and they can dry quickly. Poor families can also build thatched cottages.
Sorghum rice is not delicious. People who have eaten sorghum rice have a deep memory and a rough and bitter taste. Most importantly, it is a bit troublesome to process the harvested sorghum seeds into sorghum rice. In the past, there were no special tools. We often hit sorghum with stone mortar, which is very laborious. You can cook rice or Baba, and you can eat it once or twice occasionally. After a long time, no one eats it, so there are few races now. From time to time, we will see several trees planted at the foot of the field, and they are planted on purpose, just to make a brush handle.
The main reason why farmers don't grow sorghum is not because of low yield, but because there is no sales channel. When there are sales channels, I believe many farmers will plant sorghum and abandon corn, because the income of planting sorghum is higher than that of planting corn, almost twice as high! Because sorghum can't be used as a staple food, it can only be used as food ration, and the sales in the market are really limited. It can be said that there is no market volume at all, and there is no other way except to acquire wineries.