Bending over the maize
A traditional Central American practice is to bend over the maize stalk to help dry the maize and to protect it from disease and pest damage. If you do this at just the right time, you will harvest more. Maize grains keep growing until a black spot appears at the base of the grain. At that time, the plant has lost all of its green color, this is when you bend the maize stalk, to allow the grains to keep drying.
Author: TV Agro-CentroAmerica
Other authors: Access Agriculture
Organization: Access Agriculture
Year: 2016
Country/ies: Guatemala
Geographical coverage: Latin America and the Caribbean
Type: Video
Full text available at: https://www.accessagriculture.org/bending-over-maize
Content language: English