HYDERABAD: India's hybrid maize seed sector could more than double to twolakh tonne a year from 90,000 tonne now in the next two years thanks to expanding demand from poultry and industrial sectors, say analysts and industry leaders.
High yields, coupled with remunerative selling prices, are influencing farmers to shift to hybrid maize cultivation from crops like hybrid cotton that have seen near saturation, they say.
"High hybrid maize cultivation now being witnessed in the country is similar to the success story of hybrid cotton seed sector in the last decade," says SVR Rao, a seed industry veteran and an independent consultant...
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