Estudo da utilização do sorgo sacarino como matéria-prima para bioprodutos industriais sustentáveis

Abstract

Brazil is a country with large agricultural area and an ideal climate for growing different crops, providing for this reason a wide range of agricultural products whose bioprocessing of waste materials, in whole or in part, it is of great interest economic and social. Sustainable development promotes needed economic growth, ensuring the preservation of the environment and social development of the region. The importance of the introduction of crops with promising characteristics for sustainable development should be studied and applied to the regional socioeconomic growth. Sorghum sp. it is a grass with numerous biotechnological attributes for the production of sustainable bioproducts that can enter in industrial areas as pharmaceutical, energy, chemical, food and production roles. Within this context, the aim of this paper is to present an overview on the use of sweet sorghum as raw material for sustainable industrial bioproducts.