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Region 05: DD highest, the rest lower;
Region 11: EE highest, the rest lower;
Region 08: FF highest, the rest lower;
Region 07: GG highest, the rest lower;
Region 12: HH highest, the rest lower;
Region 06: II highest, the rest lower;
Region 02: JJ highest, the rest lower;
Region 13: KK highest, the rest lower;
Region 01: LL highest, the rest lower;
Region 09: MM highest, the rest lower.
13 different highest yields. Do you realize what that means? Recommending the same 1 to different 13 is
recommending to 13 less than the best sweet sorghum in each region – except naturally Region 01.
You see, if the UP Los Baños
data is at all accurate and
reliable, the most outstanding
variety of all, LL, yields 99 tons
in Region 01, true – but lower
than 78 tons in Region 13,
lower than 65 tons in Region
07, lower than 40 tons in
Region 08, and so on and so
forth. The data means that LL
is best suited to Region 01, to
the climate prevailing and soil
conditions obtaining there; AA
is best suited to Region 03,
and so on and so forth.
I must therefore revise ‘survival
of the fittest’ to ‘survival of all
the fittest’ – it is fittest that I
recommend not just 1 or 2 but
a total of 13 highest-yielding
varieties (HYVs) – that is, a
different HYV fits best a different region. In other words, there are 13 sorghum HYVs all in all for me to recommend,
each one the highest for that region. That means I have saved at least 12 generations of sorghum breeding &
selection for 12 other new varieties of sorghum. 12 years saved?
‘Survival Of The Fittest’