The Smart Revolution.

Ethanol Corn Or Sugarcane? ‘Sweet Sorghum Is Smart’ – William Dar, ICRISAT

camera-me-236.jpgSorghum makes a revolutionary theory: Smart! For biofuel, a paradigm shift from American corn to American sorghum, from Brazilian sugarcane to Brazilian sorghum, that’s smart. To make ethanol, corn is fine, sugarcane is sweet, but sweet sorghum is sweet smart.

‘Sweet sorghum is the smart crop,’ Director General William Dar of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) says over lunch on broiled chicken, sinigang na maya-maya (sour soup, fish), tea and sugarcane juice somewhere in Quezon City, Philippines yesterday, January 11. ‘A smart crop’ – I wish I had thought of that. Dar and I am with a common friend, Santiago R Obien, more popularly called simply SRO, Executive Director of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), Retired; now consultant of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR), my ‘Wizard of Rice’ (americanchronicle.com). Full essay

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  1. The Smart Revolution. « My Franciscan Essays Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    [...] ‘Sweet sorghum is the smart crop,’ Director General William Dar of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) says over lunch on broiled chicken, sinigang na maya-maya (sour soup, fish), tea and sugarcane juice somewhere in Quezon City, Philippines yesterday, January 11. ‘A smart crop’ – I wish I had thought of that. Dar and I am with a common friend, Santiago R Obien, more popularly called simply SRO, Executive Director of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), Retired; now consultant of the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR), my Click here for the full essay [...]

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    January 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

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  3. To Harvest The Sun. « The Franciscan Quote Says:
    January 16th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    [...] a quick view, read ‘My American Book. Embracing Science Embracing Faith’). Sweet sorghum is ‘a smart man’s choice of a poor man’s crop’ (frankahilario.com) because it need not compete with food crops for site or size; it needs [...]

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    March 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am

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