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Corn is an important commodity of agricultural products after rice crop, the role of corn is very big for poultry farming, and 4 legged livestock, as a source of nutritious food that is needed in the animal feed industry, because the productivity of the national corn is still low then the import of corn becomes an option, maize planting spread outside Java and livestock feed factory is still concentrated in Java and Sumatera Island, causing transportation cost of transportation of maize become expensive and difficult to compete with imported corn.
almost everyone has consumed processed foods from corn, there are even some areas in Indonesia that make corn as the staple food.planting corn is not too difficult because it can be planted anywhere with low cost.
Corn is an attractive model plant especially in the fields of biology and agriculture. Since the beginning of the 20th century, this plant has been the subject of intensive genetic research, and has helped to create a revolutionary hybrid cultivar technology. From the side of physiology, this plant belonging to C4 plants so it is very efficient use of sunlight. In agronomic studies, dramatic and peculiar maize responses to nutritional deficiencies or poisoning of important nutrients make corn the preferred crop of fertilization physiology experiment.
#### how is the cultivation Although known for a number of corn races that are able to adapt to low temperatures and high areas, corn is a lowland plant with warm temperatures and need full sun light.The need for water is average, but water shortages in early growing, flowering, and seed filling will result in dramatic decreases hasvesting quality. Corn can grow on various types of soil, provided the availability of water and nutrients is fulfilled and the roots are able to grow well. corn root is not deep, so layers though should not be too hard. The nutrient requirements of corn are high, especially against nitrogen and phosphorus. Corn loves soil with neutral acidity
corn harvesting
Annual plants that in cultivation complete one life cycle in 80-150 days (about 3 to 5 months), depending on the cultivars and when planting. The term "whole corn" represents the average age of corn ranging from three to four months . Around the first half of the life cycle is the stage of vegetative growth and the second half for the reproductive stage. Some corn is a short-day plant whose flowering occurs if it gets irradiated under certain sunlight lengths, usually 12.5 hours.
#### the use of corn
The main product of corn is the grain (grain). Grain is actually a fruit and a unified seed. The largest grain mass is filled by carbohydrate-rich endosperms. From the resulting grains, corn became the third source of basic human food after wheat and rice. Corn grain is used as animal feed, both for poultry and large livestock. The biggest absorption in Indonesia now is as a source of animal feed. Grain preparations are also absorbed in the food industry, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and chemical industries.
Another important corn product is corncob. Corncob is also harvested at about three weeks after pollination to be used as vegetables or boiled and burned. Sweet corn usually fills this share. The young and underdeveloped corncobs are harvested as fresh vegetables known as babycorn.
The intact green corn crop is utilized by farming as a forage farm. The content of corn protein is high enough as a source of feed for cattle and buffalo. Bioenergy field develops corn with high cellulose content to be utilized biomass as a renewable energy source.
food
The corn portion that is commonly eaten by humans is the grains, both young when the contents have not dried up or after being old and drying out.
Dry grain can be mashed into cornmeal (cornstarch). Maizena is an ingredient for a variety of cakes and processed snacks as well as for raw materials making noodle
poultry feed
For poultry can be given in the intact form (pigeon's feed), split (feeding birds), mashed, until powdered.
Currently, corn is also used as an alternative energy source. Moreover, the corn essence can be converted into polymer as a substitute agent for a plastic main function replacement. One company in Japan has been mixing corn and plastic polymers into raw materials computer case that is ready to be distributed.
Source : www. Wikipedia.org
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