Paranapanema Group

Corn or Maize

Indian Yellow Maize (Corn) after wheat and rice, it is the most important cereal grain in the world. It provides nutrition to both humans and animals . Serves as basic raw material for the production of starch, oil and protein, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners and animal feed. It is one of the major crops grown all over India.

Maize is the most important food crop in Africa and Latin America and is a key Asian crop. In Africa, maize is consumed by 50 percent of the population and is the preferred food for one-third of all malnourished children and 900 million poor people worldwide. Maize is the worldâ??s number one feed grain, including the developing countries. It is used extensively as the main source of calories in animal feed and feed formulation. We supply yellow and white maize for human and animal consumption from Brazil, Argentina and The United States of America

Product Description - Maize can be used to feed a variety of farm animals, it has a high metabolisable energy value with a low fibre content, it has 8-13% of crude protein, with a high TDN of 85% and recently a new variety of maize (Floury 2) was produced with a high methionine and lysine. Price of product ( USD price or FOB price) - All of the various product prices/offers we receive can frequently change, therefore, please be assured we seek to find the best offers possible, and will always pass the most competitive prices/offers available to our buyers. Product origin - Brazil - Argentina - Ukraine - USA Key Specifications/Special Features - Maize Cattle Feed is Not for human consumption, it is best fed as a maize silage / pasture diet together with protein supplementation. Minimum Order Size and Packaging details - "First initial trial shipment of 10,000 MT, followed by a 12 month contract, with monthly shipments between 25,000 to 100,000 MT per month. NO SPOT CONTRACTS ARE ACCEPTED "

The importance of white maize or Corn is due to its wide diversity of uses. It is used both as food for human and feed for animals. White Maize has its significance as a source of a large number of industrial products besides its uses as human food and animal feed. It is used in various forms such as - corn meal, cornflakes, popcorns, corn flour, baby corns, corn cooking oil etc. It is also a major source of starch, and a major ingredient in home cooking. The starch, the major constituent of the corn kernel, is used in its native form or after chemical or enzymatic modification, in foods and industrial products. The starch is also converted into glucose or fructose for use as food sweetness. Glucose can be fermented in to ethanol for fuel or beverages or into many other chemicals. Specifications:- Moisture: 12% �?�¢?? 14% max Foreign Matter: 2% max Broken: 2.5% max Damaged Kernels: 5% max Admixture: 2% max Shriveled /Immature grains: 2.5% to 4.5% max Weevilled grains:1% max