popcorn Tag

17 Feb

Posted at 10:02h in Crop Cultivation

किसानों की आय बढ़ाने के लिए विशिष्ट मक्का और उनकी विशेष उत्पादन प्रौद्योगिकियों की भूमिका Corn or Maize (Zea mays L.) is high-yielding, fast-growing, highly adaptable and multi -utility cereal crop. Maize and wheat are the major source of carbohydrates and proteins for almost a half of the world's human population.  Maize is primarily grown as an energy crop, but the use of different specific types such as sweet maize, popping maize and white seeded maize is quite extensive. It is with respective quality parameters relating to tender ear characteristics, biochemical components relating to protein, sweetness, starch, oil and popping traits are considered as specialty corn. Compared to field corns, specialty corns possess additional...

18 Dec

Posted at 11:48h in Crop Cultivation

भारत के पूर्वोत्तर पर्वतीय क्षेत्र में बेबी कॉर्न की खेती। Maize had been cultivated for grain and fodder purpose. It is used both as food for human and feed for livestock especially in poultry industries. It is the third most important cereal crop next to rice and wheat in India and also a predominant cereal in global agricultural economy. It has got immense yield potential and is therefore called as “miracle crop” and also “queen of cereals”. Maize being a C4 plant is an efficient convertor of nutrients into food. In the recent years, baby corn maize has gained popularity as valued vegetable throughout the world including in India. Cobs removed within...

05 Nov

Posted at 06:36h in Crop Cultivation

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.,...