Sweet Corn Cultivation

Sweet corn is one cultivar group / groups of maize cultivars commercially important enough, after the usual maize. Privileges are high sugar content at harvest time. Harvesting to production is always done when young (the stage of "mature milk", about - about 18-22 days after pollination occurs).

The sweet taste at the time of harvest occurs because corn is a mutation in one or more genes that regulate the formation of the polysaccharide chains, so that the grain - grain corn starch failed formed in considerable amounts. As a result of this failure, when it dries the grain will wrinkle.

In contrast to corn fields, sweet corn are not usually sold as animal feed, but as human consumption. The corn processing can be boiled, baked, or used as pulp. Sweet corn in trade classification classified as a vegetable - even though the corn fields of vegetables are classified as secondary crops. This is because the sweet corn is sold fresh and perishable. The sweet taste does not last long (one to four days) so that the "shelf life" to be one of the important determinants of the quality.

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