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  2. Maize - Wikipedia

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    Maize and cornmeal (ground dried maize) constitute a staple food in many regions of the world. [6] Maize is used to produce the food ingredient cornstarch. [97] Maize starch can be hydrolyzed and enzymatically treated to produce high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener. [98] Maize may be fermented and distilled to produce Bourbon whiskey. [99]

  3. Energy crop - Wikipedia

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    Plants best suited for future bioenergy feedstocks should be fast growing, high yielding, and require very little energy inputs for growth and harvest etc. [18] The use of energy crops for energy production can be beneficial because of its carbon neutrality. It represents a cheaper alternative to fossil fuels while being extremely diverse in ...

  4. Industrial agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.The methods of industrial agriculture include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the ...

  5. Crop desiccation - Wikipedia

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    Desiccated potato plants prior to harvest. Pre-harvest crop desiccation is the application of an agent to a crop just before harvest to kill the leaves and/or plants so that the crop dries out from environmental conditions, or "dry-down", more quickly and evenly.

  6. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    More than 90% of rural households have access to land, yet most of these poor have insufficient access to food. [20] Subsistence agriculture can be used in low-income countries as a part of policy responses to a food crisis in the short and medium term and provide a safety net for the poor in these countries. [20]

  7. Agroforestry - Wikipedia

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    Plant maize in rows. This is a traditional local crop. Harvest from the dried plant and plant beans. The maize stalks provide an ideal structure for the climbing bean plants. Bean is a nitrogen-fixing plant and therefore helps introduce more nitrogen. Pumpkins can be planted during this time. The plant's large leaves and horizontal growth ...

  8. Three Sisters (agriculture) - Wikipedia

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    The food served at these gatherings included, alongside a variety of other plants and animals, several domesticated squash varieties, maize, and wild beans. [26] Food that needed to be processed, like cornmeal , would commonly be prepared at the feast site alongside non-food items that gave the feasts ritual or ceremonial importance.

  9. Sweet corn - Wikipedia

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    The fruit of the sweet corn plant is the corn kernel, a type of fruit called a caryopsis. The ear is a collection of kernels on the cob. Because corn is a monocot, there is always an even number of rows of kernels. [further explanation needed] The ear is covered by tightly wrapped leaves called the husk.

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