Continuing Trials! Indian White Sorghum First Harvest Set Nov. 5

On Nov. 5, Sunday (not Nov. 8 as I earlier wrote”, farmers in Alamada and surrounding towns of Cotabato Province will discover first hand the productivity potentials of the Indian Jowar or White Sorghum.
The harvest will be in a 3,300-sqm. Demo Farm owned by Pigcawaran, Alamada Barangay Chairman Max Arat.
The seeds of the Indian Jowar were provided to me by Green & Grow Teknologies, a Filipino seed company, five months ago.
They asked me to plant the seeds with a guarantee that I would be refunded with my expenses if the yield proved not to be profitable.
While our small company, Southseas Agri-Aqua Ventures Inc., uses Sorghum Bicolor from Scott Seeds of Texas, I agreed to conduct the trials for Indian Jowar.
I was not really interested or excited about Indian Jowar because based on what I read, it has very low yield of only 2 metric tons in India.
What I failed to consider, however, was the fact that Jowar is normally planted in India’s marginal or arid lands.
In the fertile land of Alamada, Cotabato, Indian Jowar surprised me with its vigor and later, its large heads of grains.
On Wednesday, we will be able to determine, through actual harvest, how much grains could be harvested and the volume of silage which could be gathered.
#FarmingIsEndlessLearning!
(Photos of Indian Jowar in Alamada Demo Farms taken by Genio Demetillo and Samuel Alim.)