Productivity of the energy crops: Giant reed and sweet sorghum in Turkey

Annual productivity of two energy crops giant reed and sweet sorghum are determined. Giant reed plantation from rhizomes showed in first year very low biomass yields of 0.7 kg/sqm based on dry weight. Wildly growing giant reeds showed 5.3 kg/sqm of production. While sweet sorghum variety Koral showed also low yields, the variety Keller gave a yield of 4 kg/sqm.