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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Maize

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Maize was first used in the Tehuacan Valley, in Mexico. It was also highly used by the Mayans for their cooking specially in Mesoamerica 9000 years ago. It then spread in all America (2500 BC) and was used for trading based on its surplus or need. Maize spread all over the word after the Americans and the Europeans contacted, and it got carried to Europe. Maize has an ability to grow in diverse climates, and that was the reason other populations used it outside Europe. This versatile plant is a major source of food for both humans and animals. The word corn is a synonym of maize, used in America, Australia and New Zealand. Corn had a length of 1 inch only before being genetically modified so it gets to 2.5 meters nowadays (www.wekepedia.com) …show more content…

Japan is corn’s biggest importer with 15400000 MT (http://www.indexmundi.com/) . There is many forms of maize used with food like popcorn, flour corn, dent corn, pod corn etc. Also corn is divided by classes (white, yellow, and other maize) and by grades for each class (white: wm1, wm2, wm3; yellow: ym1, ym2, ym3). Corn’s prices varied over the years, where they had their ups and downs due to the corn’s world demand and supply which varies from a year to another (graph 1). Prices also …show more content…

The biggest supplier of corn in the world the U.S.A (http://www.ers.usda.gov/) . China is considered to be the second biggest consumer of corn, and that demand is growing nowadays and has shifted from staple grains, rice and wheat, to corn (maize). According to a research on (http://www.ers.usda.gov/), china’s demand is expanding rapidly mainly by growth of the population and the growth on animal feed consumption and went from 128 100 MT consumed corn in 2004 to 3 000 000 MT consumed in 2014 (http://www.nationmaster.com/). Despite its huge demand on corn, china has a very poor supplying of this corp, being the 13th biggest exporter of corn in the world and that production is losing rate every year, where the growth rate began at 48% in 1961, and kept going down to -1% in 2014, so the country is in need of importing maize (graph 2). Maize is produced in huge quantities and all over the world, major countries of corn production are first the U.S.A with 361 091000 MT produced in 20014, then china with 215 500 000 MT produced in 2014, and then comes brazil

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