S. African Biofuel Plan May Boost Sorghum Sixfold, Grain Says

South Africa’s proposed mandatory blending of biofuels with gasoline and diesel may signal the start of a biofuels industry and boost sorghum output sixfold, an economist at the farmers’ body Grain SA said.

The government’s September release of draft blending rules may be “an early indication of a possible economic revival that is due for the sorghum industry,” Wessel Lemmer said in the Bothaville-based group’s monthly magazine. Blending could boost sorghum output to 950,000 metric tons by 2020, he said.