Can sorghum be used instead of wheat?

The Russian Ukraine war has caused a shake-up of certain commodity supply chains such as wheat san Indonesia threatened with a shortage of grain supplies.

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Asa tropical country, Indonesia has trouble growing its own wheat.

In increasingly difficult circumstances to obtain imported wheat, the government then echoed the sorghum crop, which was expected to be a subtitution for wheat.
This plant is not mistaken if it is used as an alternative, although it is not necessarily able to play a role like wheat. 

Althoughit cannot replace 100 percent, sorghum has the potential to be used as raw food for noodles and bread.

DrAmin Nur, Head of Cereal Crop Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, in this interview elaborated on what sorghum is, and its potential in Indonesia. 

Governmentsupport, in general, is still indispensable to lift sorghum in a strategic position.

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Can sorghum be used instead of wheat?

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