Maize

In India, maize is the third most important food crops after rice and wheat. In addition to staple food for human being and quality feed for animals, maize serves as a basic raw material as an ingredient to thousands of industrial products that includes starch, oil, protein, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, film, textile, gum, package and paper industries etc.

In Gujarat, Dahod is the main centre for it.  Rajasthan, U.P., M.P. also the most fertile centre for the Maize.