Most Indian farmers already know maize as a monsoon crop. You sow it in June, it drinks the rain, and you harvest it by October. Simple enough. But here’s something a lot of farmers are discovering: maize grown in the rabi season can give you more yield per...
If you’ve eaten popcorn at a cinema hall, bitten into a bhutta on a rainy evening, or had cornflakes for breakfast — you’ve already had a close encounter with maize. But maize is so much more than food. It feeds our poultry, fuels our cars, and quietly...