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The units by which the yield of a crop is usually measured today are kilograms per hectare or bushels per acre.. Long-term cereal yields in the United Kingdom were some 500 kg/ha in Medieval times, jumping to 2000 kg/ha in the Industrial Revolution, and jumping again to 8000 kg/ha in the Green Revolution. [1]
Crop kg oil/ha/yr litres oil/ha lbs oil/acre US gal/acre Coldest hardiness zone. Warmest hardiness zone maize (corn) : 147 172 129 18 3 11 cashew nut: 148 176 132
The protein from maize is further enhanced by protein contributions from beans and pumpkin seeds, while pumpkin flesh provides large amounts of vitamin A; with the Three Sisters, farmers harvest about the same amount of energy as from maize monoculture, but get more protein yield from the inter-planted bean and pumpkin. Mt.
The production of corn (Zea mays mays, also known as "maize") plays a major role in the economy of the United States. The US is the largest corn producer in the world, with 96,000,000 acres (39,000,000 ha) of land reserved for corn production. Corn growth is dominated by west/north central Iowa and east central Illinois. Approximately 13% of ...
The word maize is used by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, [24] and in the names of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico, the Indian Institute of Maize Research, [25] the Maize Association of Australia, [26] the National Maize Association of Nigeria, [27] the National Maize Association of Ghana, [28] the ...
Zea is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family.The best-known species is Z. mays (variously called maize, corn, or Indian corn), one of the most important crops for human societies throughout much of the world.
The following are international Maize (corn) production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT statics The quantities of corn (maize, Zea mays) in the following table are in million metric tonnes (m STs, m LTs). All countries with a typical production quantity of at least 10 million t (11 million short ...
Dry seed 01: Start of imbibition 03: Imbibition complete 05: Radicle emerged from seed 07: Coleoptile emerged from seed 09: 0.0: Leaf just at coleoptile tip Seedling growth 10: 1: First leaf through coleoptile 11: 1.+ First leaf unfolded 12: 1.+ 2 leaves unfolded 13: 2.+ 3 leaves unfolded 14: 3.+ 4 leaves unfolded 15: 4.+ 5 leaves unfolded 16: ...