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Sorghum is a summer cereal crop that can be grown successfully in dry climates and light fertile soils.
It can tolerate heat and drought conditions so it can be cultivated in both rainfed and irrigated areas.
Now people prefer wheat as human food

Sorghum can also be cultivated on light kalrathi soil.
Flatness of land for millet cultivation is a guarantee of good yield.
If the soil was not plowed in the previous crop, it should be loosened and loosened by plowing once with a plow and cultivator twice.
In rainfed areas, two bags of nitrophos fertilizer is recommended at the time of land preparation before sowing

The per acre production of millet in Pakistan is low compared to other countries, in which there is room for further increase.
By adopting advanced varieties of seeds and modern cultivation methods, the production can be increased many times.
Sorghum can be grown successfully on light and heavy mira land.
Sorghum plant can tolerate excess of salinity to some extent, but soil with high color and clay is not suitable for sorghum cultivation.
A soil with good drainage is suitable.
Birds cause a lot of damage to the millet crop, so it should not be cultivated in fields where there are many trees or the trees should be pruned well.

Hence the decline in sorghum production over the last 60 years
has come Since millet is also used as a source of feed and fodder.
Therefore, it is of great importance in the poultry sector.

The area under millet and millet in Pakistan is on an average 1.5 million hectares and the yield is about 5.4 tons per hectare.
Punjab and Sindh are the major sorghum producing provinces of Pakistan contributing 47% and 26% of the total area respectively.
Due to its less use as food, the area under millet cultivation has decreased.

Sorghum can withstand heat and drought better than maize.
That is why millet is widely cultivated in semi-arid regions of the world.
Sorghum is grown for grain in the rainfed areas of Punjab, Dera Ghazi Khan, Mianwali, Jhelum and Rawalpindi.
While in irrigated areas it is mainly grown for fodder

Sorghum is cultivated on a large area in Dera Ismail Khan and Mardan areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Sibi and Loralai areas of Balochistan.

In Punjab, millet is grown for fodder from March to May and for grain from June to July.
In Sindh it is sown in June for both fodder and grain

goes It is usually grown during June and July in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and July and August in Balochistan.
Varieties of sorghum have the potential to increase milk production in lactating animals.
Out of all the four, millet is cultivated on the largest area in Pakistan.