Shrinking Pandesal! Feed Millers Eye Sorghum To Fill Up Flour Shortage

As the international market price of Wheat had gone through the roof following supply shortage due to drought and the Ukraine war, local flour millers are keenly looking at Sorghum as flour source.
Sorghum, 5th most important grain in the world which is the staple food of many Africans, is now being propagated by the Southseas Agri-Aqua Ventures, Inc., a small company which I and former Senator Panfilo Lacson, Rocky French and four other friends have formed.
Planting has already started in partnership with the Dolefil Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Cooperative in Polomolok, South Cotabato with a targeted area of 3,000 hectares this year.
While our production is mainly aimed at supplying our small feed mill and CP Foods Philippines with feed grains, we are also interested in collaborating with flour millers to at least ease the pressure caused by high wheat prices on local bread makers.
Sorghum bicolor is the variety used in producing jowar flour.
“When processed into a flour, sorghum flour has a mild, slightly sweet flavor and smooth texture that makes it suitable for making brownies, cookies, muffins, waffles and all kinds of other baked goods,” according to information provided by a baking website.
Sorghum flour is said to be the best complement to wheat flour of up to 50%.
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(Photos of Sorghum flour were downloaded from public websites.)