Maize

Scientific name : Zea mays
Family : Gramineae
Maize (Zea mays) is one of the most important cereal crops in the world grown over an area of 132 m.ha with a production of 570m.t. It is the crop with the highest per day productivity.
In India, maize is next in important only to rice and has an acreage around 6m.ha with a production of 10.5m.t.
Maize is one of the oldest of the cultivated crops. It is no longer capable of survival in the wild form and can be grown only under cultivation.
With the high yield potential of maize, development of maize hybrids adapted to the particular areas is a feasible strategy to enhance maize production and productivity.
Corn, known botanically as Zea mays Linnaeus, is a green plant utilizes suns energy, carbondioxide and water containing minerals to produce one of the worlds most versetile seed crops.
Corn in the United states is also called maize or Indian corn. In some countries corn is often understood to mean the leading crop that grows in a district. Corn in England means wheat. In Scotland and Ireland, it refers to oats.