Ferenc Kardos planted 300 hectares of sorghum instead of corn this year. From the fertile Hungarian plain where he lives all the way to southeastern France, the hot weather cereal is taking root in Europe.
Sorghum, which is in the same family as millet, is the world’s fifth-most important cereal crop, after corn, rice, wheat and barley. While sorghum isn’t unknown in Europe, where it has been cultivated since just after WWII, it has been grown almost exclusively as fodder for animals. “We could have increased surfaces under cultivation even more… but there is a widespread lack of seeds,” said Courtois, who also belongs to an association of French producers of sorghum and corn seeds.
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