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Sweet Corn Production Guide

Sweet corn is one of the most important staple crops after rice. It is scientifically called Zea mays rugosa, a cultivar of field corn (Zea mays L.). Growing special types of corn such as sweet corn, popcorn, and waxy corn is very promising for farmers' livelihoods because sweet corn is easier to grow, more labor-saving, less prone to pest infestation, and often more profitable than field corn. Sweet corn is monoecious, having male flowers (tassels) at the top of the plant and female flowers (silks) in leaf axils along the main stem. Pollen moves by wind and gravity from the tassels to the silks. For best

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Sweet Corn Production Guide

Sweet corn is one of the most important staple crops after rice. It is scientifically called Zea mays rugosa, a cultivar of field corn (Zea mays L.). Growing special types of corn such as sweet corn, popcorn, and waxy corn is very promising for farmers' livelihoods because sweet corn is easier to grow, more labor-saving, less prone to pest infestation, and often more profitable than field corn. Sweet corn is monoecious, having male flowers (tassels) at the top of the plant and female flowers (silks) in leaf axils along the main stem. Pollen moves by wind and gravity from the tassels to the silks. For best

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Sweet Corn Production Guide

September 21, 2013 AgriBusiness 2 Comments Sweet corn, table corn, or sugar corn, is one of the sweetest, most important staple crop next to rice. Scientifically, sweet corn is calle Zea mays rugosa, a culti!ar of fiel corn "#ea mays $.%. &ro uction of special types of corn such as popcorn, waxy "or glutinous% corn, high lysine'tryptophan corn, an sweet corn was foun to be !ery promising as li!elihoo for farmers. (his is because sweet corn is simpler to grow, labor)sa!ing, less prone to insect pest infestation, an is oftentimes more profitable than growing corn for grain.

Sweet Corn is monoecious, ha!ing male flowers on top of the plant an female flowers "sil*s% at leaf axis along the main stem. (he male flower, calle the tassel, can pro uce up to a million pollen grains. (he pollen begins to she se!eral ays before the female sil*s emerge, but continues to pro uce pollen an mature for many ays. &ollen mo!es by win an gra!ity. +t is for this reason that single rows of corn on,t usually pollinate an yiel as well as many rows si e)by)si e. (he ear, or female flower, is enclose in se!eral layers of -hus*. with only the fine string)li*e styles or sil*s emerging abo!e for pollination. (he o!aries are pro uce in rows along the upright axis of the spi*e or cob. After fertili/ation they e!elop into *ernels. As the plants are win pollinate they shoul be grown in bloc*s rather than rows, 01cm "12in% apart. Sweet corn can also cross)pollinate with other types of corn. +f sweet corn is plante ownwin of popcorn or fiel corn, *ernels will be starchy instea of sweet. Cross)pollination between white an yellow culti!ars will change the colors of the *ernels. 3xtra)sweet an stan ar culti!ars also shoul not be plante near each other or at the same time. (o pre!ent cross)pollination problems, sweet corn shoul be separate from ifferent types of corn by at

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