Africa's great contribution to the world's cereals: a grain domesticated in the Sudan region that tolerates heat and drought no other major cereal can. Sorghum remains the staple of the Sahel and semi-arid India, and serves the Americas mainly as feed grain and forage. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionNortheastern Africa (Sudan region) 1 Domesticated When (Circa)circa 4000 to 3000 BC, with cultivation of wild forms earlier 1 Era
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This milestone records the domestication event of the sorghum crop it is directly named for.
Sorghum is one of ICRISAT's five original mandate crops for the semi-arid tropics.
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It is typically an annual, but some cultivars are perennial.
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Sorghum remains the staple of the Sahel and semi-arid India, and serves the Americas mainly as feed grain and forage.
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S. bicolor was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 5,000 years ago in Eastern Sudan in the area of the Rivers Atbara and Gash.
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