| Agroclimatic areas | Types of sorghum | Flowering period Rate | ||
| Early of September | Mid-September | End of September | ||
| North Sudanian | Sorghum grain | 59.5% | 34.3% | 7.2% |
| Sweet grain sorghum | 65.5% | 31.0% | 3.4% | |
| Dyer sorghum | 71.5% | 28.5% | 0.0% | |
| Sub-Sahelian | Sorghum grain | 22.2% | 55.6% | 22.2% |
| Sweet grain sorghum | 37.5% | 50.0% | 12.5% | |
| Sweet sorghum | 28.6% | 42.9% | 28.5% | |