China's fresh corn forms a pattern of "sweet in the south and waxy in the north".

What kind of development process has fresh corn experienced in China? What is your position in the world? What is the direction of development in the future? The narration of experts can not only solve our doubts, but also make us feel the heat of fresh corn.

Fresh corn is corn that harvests and eats fresh and tender ears like fruits and vegetables. It mainly includes sweet corn, waxy corn, sweet and waxy corn developed in recent years, as well as a small amount of bamboo shoot corn and so on. According to the survey, the annual planting area of fresh corn in China has more than 17 million mu, including 5 million mu of sweet corn, 11 million mu of waxy corn and 1 million mu of sweet plus waxy corn. And formed the basic pattern of "sweet in the south and waxy in the north". China's fresh waxy corn has been exported to South Korea and other foreign markets year after year. China has become the largest producer and consumer of fresh corn in the world. It has Chinese characteristics and obvious advantages in the breeding of fresh waxy corn and sweet waxy corn.

Sweet corn is a major vegetable crop in Europe, America and other countries. It ranks fourth in the fresh vegetable market in the United States and second in the processing vegetable market. China's development has accelerated in recent years, the main planting areas are Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces, around big cities, as well as Hebei, Jilin and other order production and processing zones. Waxy corn is a type of natural variation produced after corn was introduced into China, and it belongs to the type of corn originated in the mountainous area of southwest Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. It has been planted in our country for hundreds of years. However, waxy maize breeding in China started relatively late, and the first waxy maize hybrid variety was bred in the 1970s. In the past ten years, the fresh waxy corn industry has developed rapidly, from more than 1 million mu at the beginning of this century to more than 10 million mu. There are white, yellow, purple, black and multi-color in color, early, middle and late maturation, and innovative sweet plus waxy type. It meets the diversified needs of the market.

The fresh corn industry is developing rapidly and has great potential. The main forms of products are sales ear, quick-frozen ear, quick-frozen grain, and drinks. There are more than 1800 processing enterprises of fresh corn and quick-frozen fruits and vegetables in China, of which there are nearly 200 enterprises with an annual output of more than 2000 tons.

In addition, the germplasm of sweet corn, waxy corn and all kinds of colored corn are produced naturally and have been planted all over the world and in China for hundreds of years. At present, the fresh corn planted and produced in China is non-genetically modified, and breeders aggregate more excellent characters such as yield, quality, taste, color and so on through conventional cross breeding methods, so as to make these corn more high-yield and high-quality. Both delicious and good-looking, adaptability is also more extensive, our corn consumers and the majority of corn flour can see and taste more diverse, more delicious, more nutritious corn.