Maize exports increased by 28.5 percent to $816,31 million during April-January 2022, against $634,85 million in the same period the previous financial year, the commerce ministry said on Sunday.”Bangladesh and Nepal are the major importers of maize from India,” it added.
Bangladesh has imported maize worth $345,5 million in the first ten months of the current fiscal, while Nepal’s import stood at $132,16 million during this period.Other prominent importing countries are Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Taiwan, and Oman.
Maize is India’s third most important cereal crop after rice and wheat. The cereal crop is mostly grown in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh.
In India, maize is grown throughout the year, and it is predominantly a Kharif crop with 85 percent of the area under cultivation in the season.
In addition to staple food for human beings and quality feed for animals, maize serves as an essential raw material/ingredient to many industrial products, including starch, oil, protein, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, film, textile, gum, package, and paper industries.
source: the Hindu business line
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