Sorghum is an important food stable crop cultivated in all states of South Sudan under subsistence rainfall. The crop is also cultivated under mechanized rain fed and irrigated system in the northern counties of Upper Nile state. Other states in the country started adapting mechanization in their stats since 2005.
Sorghum grows well under the following conditions:
- Shallow and heavy clay soils, well-drained fertile soil.
- Medium to good and fairly stable rainfall pattern during the growing season
- A temperature of 27°C to 30 °C for optimum growth.
Opportunities for sorghum investment are available in the following areas:
- Northern counties of Upper Nile state.
- Aliab in Yoril and Amethual, Lakes state.
- Jebel Lado, Central Equatoria state.
- Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria state.