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31 The study observed that maize has potential for product diversification under a new economic regime. Demand for maize is shifting from food to feed for livestock and poultry. For foods, new types of maize-based products (soups, vegetables, edible oils) are in demand among people in the higher-income strata. New opportunities need to be tapped by providing appropriate technologies to farming communities. Future maize production will largely depend on how markets are developed. Except in the southern nontraditional maize growing region, the productionmarketing linkages are extremely weak and need to be strengthened. Linkages are stronger in southern regions because innovative institutions for poultry production, in the form of contract farming, have emerged. The new arrangements are win-win propositions for maize and poultry producers, the hatchery and feed industry, and the consumers. The new arrangements are responsible, to a great extent, for the large-scale area expansion of maize into the southern region. There is a need to develop mechanisms for strengthening the productionmarketing-processing maize system in the northern traditional maize growing areas, so that the povertyridden maize producers can also benefit.
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