Corn yield-enhancing cultivation

Author: Tong Youcai
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Corn, wheat, and rice are the world's three major staple crops, with corn production ranking third. China's corn production ranks second in the world, second only to the United States, accounting for 22.4% of the country's total grain output and ranking third. Corn has a wide range of uses and is highly valuable. As a staple food, it has made significant contributions to human survival and development; as animal feed, it is a high-quality concentrate for livestock and is renowned as the "king of feed"; corn is also an important industrial raw material, playing a unique role in many fields. With the continuous improvement of people's living standards and the demand for dietary structures, the food processing, deep processing, feed processing, and comprehensive utilization of corn by-products have developed rapidly, especially the development and utilization of specialty corn, which has garnered increasing attention. In China, the development of corn production primarily relies on increasing yield per unit area by applying high-yield varieties and implementing integrated best practices to elevate corn production to a new level. This book introduces corn fertilization techniques, irrigation techniques, various intercropping techniques, cultivation techniques for specialty corn, and the control of various pests and diseases, enabling farmers to fully master corn production technology and contribute to increasing yields and farmers' income.