Maize C.N: 20 (Diploid) Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Zea Species: Z. mays Introduction: Maize, is the world's 3rd leading cereal crop, following wheat and rice. USA produces nearly 40% of the total world’s production and it is also the staple food of Americans. After the America, largest corn producing country, are the People's Republic of China & Brazil. Corn is the leading cereal in USA, with ordinary production 3 times
Domestication of Maize Throughout the history of the human race there have been a great number of crops that were discovered, planted, and over time domesticated. Wheat in the Middle East, rice in Asia, and rye in Eastern Europe are all some of today’s staple crops that feed millions every day. Crops like these make up over 50% of the world’s total food supply. However, the third most eaten crop in the world is maize, or corn, which provides 21% of human nutrition. Today maize feeds millions across
I INTRODUCTION Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important cereal crop all over the world. It ranks third in world production after wheat and rice, however, based on productivity, this crop ranks first followed by rice and wheat. It is high yielding, easy to process, readily digestible and cheaper than other cereals and used as a basic raw material for the production of starch, oil, protein, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners and more recently as biofuel. The area under maize is spreading rapidly because
The spread of maize cultivation, or agriculture, is very important to history and the time period. Agriculture is the practice of cultivating food. It gave people a form of sustainable food, allowing them to settle down, instead of being nomads. This gave way to larger cities, empires, and the ability to create a culture. The spread of maize cultivation or agriculture is most clearly linked to the theme of economics because agriculture creates an economy. Mound builders were Native Americans who
This all adds up to a very effective of producing raw materials for valuable pharmaceuticals. In the case of this project, Corn or Maize is used to produce starch that enables pharmaceutical companies and industries to produce the medicinal drugs that are in high demand to help cure or slow down the effects of diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis. Why the use of Maize? Corn starch is very valuable to the pharmaceutical industry. The starch is used as an excipient (an inactive substance that is formulated
families of this time came from maize. Despite how many years have gone by, many families still live off of corn. However, the new version of eating corn is through high fructose corn syrups and corn-fed meats (King Corn). Both cultural versions, the current and the past, hold corn as an important piece to the economy. Modern cultures still thrive on corn, however these cultures do not revere it as past cultures did. As well as being a key part to a culture’s diet, maize connected social responsibilities
Corn, or maize, is native to the Americas. It was was domesticated several thousand years ago and become a staple crop in pre-conquest mesoamerica. It was so central to the mesoamerican diet that it is thought to have made up about 80% of the calories consumed. The importance of maize is further exemplified by its role in mesoamerican cosmovision. The Maya and other mesoamerican cultures believed that humans were made by the gods out of corn. Additionally, Florentine Codex asserts that Chicomecoatl
intentional actions of humans and the natural environment that endorsed productivity. Agriculture expanded in Mesoamerica gradually due the ideal conditions that allowed natural expansion compared to the ‘Neolithic Revolution’ Jordon Childe suggests. Maize originated from teosinte much earlier than the innovation of pottery and before hunter-gather societies settled into villages. The variety of crops from agriculture result independently before spreading later to the American Southwest and the Northern
Extensive variety of cereals are utilized for brewing fermented beverages. Cereals, for example, Sorghum (sorghum bicolour (L.) Moench), millets (pearl and finger millets (Pennisetum glaucum (L) and Eleusine coracana) and maize (Zea mays (L.) are regularly utilized in Africa for producing a wide assortment of drinks [40]. 1.4.1. Bushera Bushera is produced by the folks in the western highlands of Uganda as traditional non-alcoholic beverage [125]. The principal raw materials are sorghum and millet
fruit and seed latency (Zizumbo). Between 7,000 and 5,500 years ago evidence of increased greater maize pollen accumulation suggests and increase in agriculture. This follows with a slow change from gathering to agriculture, as the earliest examples are much further away in history. Based on these examples it is clear that agriculture developed over thousands of years. With the previous examples of maize and rice showing how they were developed not in mere generations but over thousands of years. Agriculture
Maize or corn (Zea mays L.) is a plant belonging to the family of grasses (Poaceae). It is one of three major cereal crops worldwide. It now used as diversified value added consumptions as specialty corn. Popcorn is one of them and popularized as high fibre, healthy and nutritious snack throughout the world. All the commercially grown varieties of popcorn in India are composite varieties viz., Amber popcorn, Jawahar popcorn and VL popcorn with low yield with less popping quality (1). Estimative from
Corn tortillas are a very important component of the Mexican and Central American diet. They date back several thousands of years. However, there is no clear record of their origin. According to the Mayan creation legend, when the gods decided to create man they tried using different materials but the only material that worked was corn. Quetzalcoatl descended to Mictlán, the place of the dead. From there, he took some bones and went to the goddess, Coatlicue. The goddess grinded the bones together
The people of early Mesoamerica had an abundance of different foods. One main food they had though in the 3 main groups (Aztecs, Olmecs, and Mayans) was maize. Maize is a corn like plant derived from teosinte that was domesticated around seven thousand B.C. to five thousand B.C.. Maize was about seventy percent of the Mesoamerican diet and around twenty one percent was meat . The Olmec’s had corn, beans, squash, and chili peppers (194). Each of their food items went in to a balanced diet of carbs
Abstract For millennia, corn has been a staple food crop for North America. Its indigenous location was critical to the development of pre-Hispanic life in the New World. However, modern society has elevated Zea mays into a commodity strongly connected to systems of economic control and capitalism. Consequently, corn has played an essential role in colonization, industrialization, and the arrival of genetic modification. The literatures of numerous new world cultures, along with the literatures
The maze of maize Those delicious yellow tidbits that your grandmother once had straight from the golden fields -well, now they are pretty much everywhere. From the rusty shelves at the supermarket to the glossy candy in your pocket, it is the ear that’s everywhere. Maize (a.k.a Corn) comes in all sorts of colors and sizes -Blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and the most recent -rainbow colored (called the glass gem corn). Interesting! The strength of corn lies in its versatility. Corn can be consumed
ROUNDUP READY CROPS Roundup Ready crops are crops that have been genetically modified to be immune to a herbicide called Roundup, produced by Monsanto. Its active ingredient is glyphosate that was patented in the 1970s. Roundup is widely used by farmers in their fields and by the general public growing vegetation on a small scale. As, Roundup Ready plants are resistant to the herbicide Roundup, farmers who plant the Roundup Ready seeds must use Roundup to prevent other weeds from growing in their
Monsanto or the Mafia of Agriculture Monsanto is one of the biggest (Mafia group) aka biotech companies that challenge Ethics through modern and profitable Agriculture. The company is just getting stronger and growing faster than any other biotech companies it look that they are mafia of the agriculture world and there no way to stop this Mafia. This company use genetically modifying plants and has invented poisonous chemicals from the begging of agriculture. Monsanto is known to control the seed
to explain the shared characteristics of domesticated animals, which include decreased brain size and sensory organs that were less fine-tuned, and plants – stalks that are preven... ... middle of paper ... ...companions or the potential to use maize as an alternative fuel, the negative consequences of domestication have become increasingly greater. All of the negative outcomes that have arisen from the exploitation of domesticated species began as an effort to improve human health and well-being
Rising Food Prices Introduction: Food prices have been on the rise and have become a global issue. Prices have soared over the past year and a half and threaten to go up further if issues are not addressed immediately. Below is a look at how prices have been over the past year. Figure 1. FAO Food Price Index: February 2007 - January 2008 Source FAO, 2008 In this project, we attempt to find out the causes for this price rise, the trends of the rise and the effects that this rise has had on
Mesoamerican cooking mainly belonged to women, and three simple utensils including a cazuela, a metate, and a comal, allowed them to frugally make delicious tortillas. But they “derived much of their self-worth from skill at the metate, the ability to grind maize so they could feed tortillas and tamales to their husbands and children,” (14-15). This single crop has permitted for these lower-class women to preserve and refine the pre-Columbian cuisine of tortillas and tamales. Mexicans have always been and still