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…
Baby Corn Stir Fry to Baby Corn Curry: 6 Quick Recipes
Baby corn is one of those ingredients that quietly does a lot of heavy lifting in Indian kitchens. It goes into Indo-Chinese dishes without a second thought. It shows up in restaurant menus as a starter, a gravy, a stir fry. It’s the vegetable in noodles that everyone…
Quality Protein Maize (QPM): The Nutrition Story No One Tells
There’s a version of maize that could help feed India more nutritiously — reduce child stunting, improve poultry feed efficiency, address protein malnutrition in tribal and rural communities — and most people in India have never heard of it. It’s called Quality…
How to Identify and Manage Fall Armyworm in Maize
If you grow maize in India, there’s one pest you should know better than any other. Fall armyworm — called Spodoptera frugiperda in scientific language, and informally known as FAW — arrived in India in May 2018 and has become the most feared maize pest in the country…
5 Healthy Sweet Corn Recipes You Can Make in 15 Minutes
Sweet corn has a way of making everything feel better. It’s the bhutta on the roadside on a rainy evening. The pop of colour in a salad. The thing that turns a bowl of poha from ordinary to something you look forward to. And somehow, despite how good it tastes, it’s…
Current Maize Prices in India: State-Wise MSP Breakdown
Here’s the uncomfortable reality about maize prices in India right now: the government’s Minimum Support Price for maize in 2025-26 is ₹2,400 per quintal. But in many mandis across the country, farmers are getting ₹1,600 to ₹1,900 per quintal — sometimes less. That’s…
Soil Preparation for Maize: Getting the Basics Right
Here’s something most farming guides don’t say plainly enough: the yield potential of your maize crop is largely determined before you even touch a seed. Variety selection matters. Fertiliser timing matters. Irrigation matters. But none of those inputs can compensate…