maize
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Maize is a cereal crop, grown in the kharif · rabi season. Sow it in Jun–Jul, Oct–Nov and expect to harvest in 90–110 days. It wants a pH of 5.5–7.5 (close to neutral) and 21–30°C. Plant at 60 × 20 cm, allowing 18–20 kg of seed per hectare. A good crop returns around 5–8 t. Watch for fall armyworm, stem borer.
Growing Maize6 sentences from our guides, quoted exactly
Arjun Mehta revolutionized agriculture by engineering wheat, rice, and maize to fix their own nitrogen from air, eliminating fertilizer dependency and transforming farming for Indian farmers forever.
Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) Dataset Description: Focused solely on northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) disease affecting maize, the dataset contains 1,796 images, with 1,028 infected and 768 healthy maize images.
In the Gangetic Plains you'll have seasonal fodder availability, so design a feeding plan that uses: Green fodder crops grown on-farm (maize, sorghum, Napier, bajra hybrids in kharif; berseem, oat in rabi).
An example mentioned is a 3D model of a maize canopy (Guo & Li, 2001), which was used to study light interception and other architecture-dependent processes.
For fodder crops: Light to medium soils: grow sorghum (forage), bajra, and maize with timely fertilizer.
✅ Last reviewed: April 2026Grow Maize with Ease in Punjab A comprehensive guide for cultivating high-yielding maize in the fertile lands of Punjab.
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