Galen had an inquiring mind and was anxious to form his own independent judgments. His knowledge was equally great in theory and practice. Much of our information on earlier medicine derives from his reports alone, as he absorbed into his work nearly all preceding medical thought.
The crop is primarily grown in the northern states of the country, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, and a few others. Uttar Pradesh is the largest corn producing state in the country, accounting for nearly 16% of the countryâs corn production.
Maize was developed from a wild grass (Teosinte) originally growing in Central America (southern Mexico) 7,000 years ago. The ancestral kernels of Teosinte looked very different from today's corn. These kernels were small and were not fused together like the kernels on the husked ear of early maize and modern corn. By systematically collecting and cultivating those plants best suited for human consumption, Native Americans encouraged the formation of ears or cobs on early maize.