December 14, 2007

Argentina exports 935,547 tonnes of sorghum this year

Argentina exported 935,547  tonnes of sorghum this year, the second highest amount in the past 10 years, the Agriculture Secretariat said in a press release on Thursday (December 13, 2007).

The European Union, Japan and Chile were the leading market for Argentine sorghum shipments this year, according to the Secretariat.

In addition, production this season is expected to surge. Farmers will plant 847,000 hectares with sorghum during 2007-08, a 21 percent increase from the past season, the Secretariat said.

Sorghum's resistance to adverse weather and its utility as a substitute for corn as animal feed is spurring the increase, the release said.