05 Nov Packaging and Practices of Speciality Type Corn: Popcorn
पॉपकार्न : विशेष प्रकार की मक्का उगाने की विधि Corn (Zea mays L.) is one of the important cereal crop in the world. In India 49% of corn is used in poultry feed industry, 12% as animal feed and 25% as food in various forms. Diverse types of corns like sweet corn, dent corn, flint corn, pod corn,flour corn, waxy corn and pop corn are grown in India of which pop corn is the only corn that pops. Pop corn type is characterized by a very hard, corneous endosperm containing only a small portion of soft starch. Pop corn is essentially small-kernelled flint type. Pop corn has several grain colours are grown viz.,...