Maize: The Food, Feed, and Fuel
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Date
2013
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Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian
Abstract
Food needs always follow the trend of the population and are affected by the increase in per capita
income and changes in consumption patterns. This is an indication that diversification is necessary to support the
stabilization of food self-sufficiency. Corn is one crop that has long been held by the Indonesian food and still
continues to serve as a food ingredient. Advances in technology processing, make corn into raw materials different
types of food, beverages, and other key industrial materials. Currently serve corn as food, feed and alternative
energy sources. As for food, the protein content of corn is higher than rice, making it suitable as a nutritious food.
Based on the various results of the analysis showed that the protein content of corn has nearly matching sorghum
and wheat and is higher than the rice flour. Demand for feed corn has continued to increase in line with the
development of the poultry feed industry. Currently, most of the corn used for feed production and its use for food
volume tends to decrease. Initially, much of this corn grown by local farmers and seed corn produced is relatively
small, but has relatively high protein content. The development of hybrid corn technology in the past 10 years,
prompting some farmers to plant hybrid corn, so corn is used for feed is a type of hybrid. Increasingly the lessen of
fossil fuel reserve amounts in earth will result the happening of energy crisis in some states. This thing opens
exploiting opportunity of crop as alternative energy source. Corn is potentially to be developed, because having
wide adaptation, high productivity, needs slimmer relative input, resistant to pest and disease, and more tolerance to
marginal land condition (drought, salinity, and acidity). Sees several of its excellences, corn are a real potential
cereal crop to be developed as source of bioethanol in Indonesia, as well as food and feed.