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Corn is an important staple food for the world, especially for the Philippines, being the primary crop for 20% of the population. [17] In the Philippine epidemic from 1974 to 1975, Philippine downy mildew cost the nation 8% of the total yield, accounting to 205,470 metric tons, or $22,601,700. [11]
Corn/maize is the second most important crop in the Philippines. 600,000 farm households are employed in different businesses in the corn value chain. As of 2012 [update] , around 2.594 million hectares (6.41 × 10 ^ 6 acres) of land is under corn cultivation and the total production was 7.408 million metric tons (8.166 × 10 ^ 6 short tons ...
Julian Shapiro-Barnum, who interviews kids aged 2 to 9 for the social media show he created and hosts, talked to a little boy who is holding a half-eaten corn cob. View this post on Instagram A ...
Learn which countries grow the most corn in this informative video! Corn is a versatile crop with almost endless uses – from making tortillas and biscuits to animal feed. This tasty vegetable ...
Commercial fishing is causing environmental problems, exhausting food supply, and threatening livelihoods in the Philippines and around the world. [41] The Philippines has a strong fishing culture due to its historically productive and diverse marine ecosystems.
A natural process often called "corn sweat" worsened a heat dome in the Midwest this week by fueling high humidity levels.
Known locally as mais, corn was first introduced in Visayas during the sixteenth century and eventually spread to other parts of the Philippines. Because of its adaptability and affordability, it has been considered a common replacement for rice and has been steadily rising in importance as a Philippine crop and food staple.
Sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa), [1] also called sweetcorn, sugar corn and pole corn, is a variety of maize grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn