Growing maize for vegetable purpose is a recent development, for which baby maize called 'baby corn' has proved enormously successful as a venture in Thailand and Taiwan. Attention is now being paid to explore its potential in India. FOR diversification and value addition of maize as well as the growth of the food processing industry, an interesting recent development is of growing maize for vegetable purpose as baby corn' Cbaby maize'), a venture that proved enormously successful in countries like Thailand and Taiwan Attention is now being paid to explore its potential in India, for earning foreign exchange and for economic returns to the farmer as is being attempted by Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the USA, Canada and Germany.
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