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...
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...