date:May 22, 2012
This yield could be increased to 20,000 MT of barley in the following years, for local use within Ethiopia or for export.
Diageo is also seeking to scale-up sorghum sourcing cultivation and sourcing in Tanzania to 20,000 MT per year by 2015 for local use and export, via collaboration with the countrys government.
This project aims to build a sustainable sorghum value chain, with smallholders linked to larger nucleus farms, and to develop and share both sorghum cultivation and post-harvest prac