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…understandable perhaps,
given progress achieved with maize …
World Development Report 2008
28.7
0.7
8.54
8.93
Corn
Area
(Millions
of Has.)
1.2
1.7
1.2
2.3
0.4
24.1
4.81
5.29
7.80
7.24
6.96
6.52
1.1
1.1
3.69
4.18
The Top 10 Countries
Metric Tons per Hectare
Source: Ganesh Kishore, Meeting the Ag Science and Technology Challenges
of the 21 st Century, Singapore, 2009