Profibality Analysis Between White Corn

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PROFIBALITY ANALYSIS BETWEEN WHITE CORN AND YELLOW CORN

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Philippines is subdue with fertile and rich soil capable of catering to any kind of agricultural produce. Up on the valley region of Cagayan down to the swampy area of Caraga and coastal areas of Mindanao, agricultaral lands are cultivated to its fullest. One major product that the Filipinos had been planting, besides rice, is corn. Corn offers a wide variety of potential product both for human and animal consumption. A native variety of which is the White corn supplies raw products for creation of diversied product but on the passage of time, farmers began to embrace the market potential of Yellow Corn.

Maize (/ˈmeɪz/ mayz; Zea mays subsp. mays, from Spanish: maíz after Taíno mahiz), known in some English-speaking countries as Corn, is a large grain plant domesticated byindigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain the grain, which are seeds called kernels. Maize kernels are often used in cooking as a starch.

Planting density affects multiple aspects of maize. Modern farming techniques in developed countries usually rely on dense planting, which produces one ear per stalk. Stands of silage maize are yet denser, and achieve a lower percentage of ears and more plant matter.

Maize is a facultative long-night plant and flowers in a certain number of growing degree days > 10 °C (50 °F) in the environment to which it is adapted. The magnitude of the influence that long nights have on the number of days that must pass before maize flowersis genetically prescribed[20] and regulated by the phytochrome system. Photoperiodicity can be eccentric in tropical cultivars such that the long days characteristic of higher latitudes allow the plants to grow so tall that they do not have enough time to produce seed before being killed by frost. These attributes, however, may prove useful in using tropical maize for biofuels.

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