关键词: 高粱, 生产, 贸易, 消费, 趋势

Abstract: Sorghum is an important miscellaneous grain crop. In recent years, the trade quantity of sorghum between China and the United States has fluctuated dramatically. The situation of sorghum supply and demand in China has changed significantly, and consequently the development of the sorghum industry has attracted much attention. From the aspects of production, trade and consumption characteristics, this paper analyzed the development trend of sorghum industry in China from 1960 to 2018. It was found that the status of Chinese sorghum changed from a major grain crop to a minor miscellaneous grain, while the planting area of sorghum in China increased slightly in recent years. The domestic consumption of sorghum was mainly attributed to brewing sorghum-based spirits and for livestock and poultry feed use. Although China was the third largest sorghum consumer country in the world, its per capita consumption level was not high. China is the world’s largest importer of sorghum at present. Import sharply increased and reduced under the influence of the demand for feed sorghum, while export was small in scale and relatively stable. In the future, the development scale of sorghum in China would likely remain relatively stable, and the new growth space would mainly depend on the development of dryland grain crops, as well as the expansion of consumption channels.

Key words: sorghum, production, trade, consumption, trend