Sweet Corn Farming: As soon as the rainy season begins, everyone craves to eat corn. Corn rich in fiber is beneficial for health. This is the reason why the demand for corn increases in the market and farmers get the desired price for it. Corn, which you also call sweet corn in English, is eaten in many ways. Some people eat it by boiling it, some people eat it by roasting it. Some people like to drink its soup. While when it dries, people make popcorn from it and eat it with great pleasure. So let us tell you in today’s article how to cultivate sweet corn.
What is sweet corn and why is it liked
Sweet corn is cultivated just like maize cultivation. However, in sweet corn cultivation, the maize crop is harvested before it ripens, so farmers get good profits in a short time. Keep in mind that while cultivating it, choose only improved varieties of maize. It is best to choose insect resistant varieties that ripen in less time. While preparing the field, make sure to manage the drainage, this prevents waterlogging in the crop. Although sweet corn is grown all over India, but it is cultivated on a large scale in Uttar Pradesh. Let us tell you, in North India, it is sown in the Kharif season i.e. between June to July. You can cultivate sweet corn in both Rabi and Kharif seasons.
Huge profits with low investment
Let us tell you that many farmers are earning huge profits from sweet corn farming. With a cost of 20 thousand in this farming, farmers of Haryana are earning up to 1 lakh 75 thousand rupees per acre. Bijendra Dalal, a farmer from Kithwadi, a small village in Palwal, is included in the list of progressive farmers under the government scheme. Bijendra grows three crops of sweet corn in a year and is earning a profit of about 4 lakh rupees per acre in a year. 2 years ago he planted one acre of sweet corn. This year he grew the crop in two acres. Now next year he will plant sweet corn in 5 acres.
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Crop can be grown three times a year
You can grow marigold around sweet corn, so that the white fly will not harm the sweet corn. Your marigold will also be sold for about Rs 12,000. Apart from this, the fodder of sweet corn is also sweet, which animals eat with great gusto, it also helps in increasing their milk. Sweet corn fodder will also give you a lot of money.
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There is huge demand in the market
Actually, sweet corn is a very sweet variety of corn. When the corn crop is harvested in its milky stage before it ripens, it is called sweet corn. Sweet corn is liked a lot in India as well as in other countries. This is the reason why sometimes it becomes a big challenge to meet the demand of sweet corn. Therefore, if farmers are growing normal corn, then they can cultivate sweet corn to earn double. There is a huge demand for it in restaurants, which you can also sell directly to restaurants.
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