Organic Maize Farming in India: Is It Worth It?
Ask most people what organic farming offers and you’ll get a version of the same pitch: lower input costs, healthier soil, premium prices, growing demand. All of that is true — under the right conditions. What often gets left out is a harder truth: for a meaningful…
Maize-Based Biofuel in India: Opportunity or Pipe Dream?
A few days ago, on July 3, 2026, the Indian government confirmed something that would have seemed unlikely just three years earlier: India achieved its 20% ethanol blending target in petrol in December 2025, ahead of schedule — up from about 1.5% in 2013-14. And…
The Science Behind QPM: How Maize Was Made More Nutritious
Somewhere inside every maize kernel is a molecular decision being made — a decision about which proteins to build, and in what proportion. In ordinary maize, that decision consistently favours a protein that happens to be nearly worthless for human and animal…
Intercropping with Maize: Best Companion Crops for Higher Income
ere’s a simple way to think about intercropping: if you have one acre of land and you plant only maize on it, you’re using perhaps 60–70% of the available sunlight, water, and soil nutrients that the field could theoretically capture. The rest goes unused — space…
Government Schemes for Maize Farmers in India (2025 Update)
Every season, the Indian government runs a wide network of schemes designed to support farmers — income support, crop insurance, input subsidies, credit access, irrigation assistance, and price protection. But most maize farmers only know one or two of them by name,…
Maize Flour (Makka Atta): Uses, Nutrition and Market Demand
Walk into any Punjabi or Rajasthani kitchen in winter, and you’ll likely find a bag of makka atta sitting next to the wheat atta. It’s the flour behind makki ki roti — the golden, slightly crumbly flatbread that pairs with sarson da saag and a generous dollop of white…
Post-Harvest Storage of Maize: Avoid Losses the Right Way
The work of growing a good maize crop doesn’t end at harvest. It ends when that grain reaches a buyer, or your kitchen, in the same condition it left the field. In between those two points is storage — and storage is where a significant share of Indian maize quietly…
Sweet Corn vs Baby Corn: Which Is More Profitable to Grow?
If you’re a maize farmer thinking about upgrading from field corn to a higher-value crop, sweet corn and baby corn are both attractive options. Both earn significantly more than commodity grain maize. Both sell as vegetables rather than grain, which means better…
Hybrid Seed Production of Maize: How It Works in India
Every kharif season, millions of Indian farmers open a packet of hybrid maize seed, pour it into their seeders, and sow it without thinking too much about where it came from. That seed packet is the end product of a process that spans 8–10 years of plant breeding,…
Fertilizer Guide for Maize: NPK Ratios and Timing
Fertiliser is your single biggest input cost in maize farming. It’s also the input where the gap between good management and bad management shows up most directly in your yield. Too little nitrogen at the wrong time, and your crop runs out of fuel during grain…
Maize Starch Industry in India: Size, Players and Growth
When a biscuit company thickens its cream filling, it uses maize starch. When a pharmaceutical plant binds a tablet, it uses maize starch. When a textile mill sizes its yarn for weaving, it likely uses maize starch. When a paper mill coats its surface for printing,…
Best Indian Homemade Popcorn Recipes and Flavours
There’s something deeply satisfying about making homemade popcorn recipes. It costs a fraction of what you’d pay at a multiplex. It smells incredible. And with the right flavouring, it tastes better than anything that comes in a pre-packaged microwave bag — because…
Common Maize Diseases in India and How to Fight Them
Most maize farmers track pests closely. FAW, stem borer, aphids — these get attention because the damage is visible. The larva in the whorl, the frass on the leaf, the dead heart — you see it and you react. Diseases are sneakier. They start quietly, spread in…
Waxy Corn and High Oil Corn: Emerging Varieties in India
India’s maize story is usually told in three chapters: field corn for feed, sweet corn for food, and baby corn for vegetables. But there are other chapters being quietly written — in ICAR breeding programmes, in specialty starch labs, in poultry nutrition research…
How Maize Is Used in the Poultry Feed Industry in India
Every time India’s broiler industry grows — and it is growing fast — someone, somewhere, needs more maize. That’s not a simplification. It’s the structural reality of how Indian poultry nutrition works. Maize is the energy foundation of virtually every commercial…
Drip Irrigation for Maize: Water Savings and Yield Gains
India grows more maize than almost any other country on earth. And increasingly, that maize is being grown with less water per kilogram than ever before — because more and more Indian farmers are switching from flood and furrow irrigation to drip. The numbers behind…