How to cultivate maize 🌽
Once in life time you must have consumed popcorn 🍿.
Have you wonder from where we get these yummy popcorn.
Let's start from the beginning we all know the popcorn are made up of maize 🌽
Maize is cultivated in the hot weather and muddy soil.
The season for rice paddy cultivation and maize is same may to September in Planes hot lands.
Maize has become a major staple food in many parts of the world, with the total production of maize surpassing that of wheat or rice.
In addition to being consumed directly by humans, maize is also used for corn ethanol, animal feed and other maize products, such as corn starch and corn syrup.
Corn starch is very popular consumable food item.
The six major types of maize are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn.
Sugar-rich varieties called sweet corn are usually grown for human consumption as kernels, while field corn varieties are used for animal feed, various corn-based human food uses (including grinding into cornmeal, pressing into corn oil, and fermentation and distillation into alcoholic beverages like bourbon whiskey), and as chemical feedstocks.
Maize is also used in making ethanol and other biofuels nowadays.
Seed are sow in the soil Maize requires a firm and compact seedbed free from stubbles and weed.
One deep ploughing should be given, followed by two or three harrowing to bring the soil to a fine tilth organic compost manure is needed.
Maize seed should be sown with dibbling or drilling method.
It is depending on purpose of sowing, type of of maize, varieties and farm condition.
Seed should not be sown more 5-6 cm depth of soil.
To achieve higher maximum productivity and resource-use efficiencies optimum plant stand is the key factor.
The seed rate varies depending on purpose, seed size, plant type, season, sowing methods etc.
After ripping up the grain is dried and st store for different purposes