The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been active in developing new varieties of sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) with the following desirable qualities: drought tolerance, low water requirement and high extractable sugar (sucrose) content. Sweet sorghum is a saccharine biofuel crop, where extractable sugar from the stalk is fermented to produce fuel ethanol. ICRISAT has introduced a new hybrid, SSH-104. It was patented after successful trials in Andhra Pradesh, India, and in the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), Philippines. Data from the MMSU study revealed that sweet sorghum has an average yield of 110 tons per hectare. The yield was observed for two cropping seasons, one main crop followed by one ratoon crop. Studies from MMSU also showed that sweet sorghum has a sugar content of 23%, compared to 14% in sugarcane, and with a water requirement of only a quarter that of sugarcane. Based on the sugar content and yield, it is estimated that 10,000 liters of ethanol per hectare could be expected from crop. The encouraging results have prompted Arthur Yap, Secretary of the Philippine Department of Agriculture, to recognize sweet sorghum as a “strategic crop”..