<...a great deal of corn is eaten in India, especially in the North.
I didn’t know that, and am very surprised. None of my Indian freinds have ever said anything about that, except that they feed corn to their cattle. Do you know, have there been widespread crop failures in India too, just like in Australia?
15M metric tons of corn consumed per year in India. Possibly most of this goes to the cows.
90M tons of rice, and 75M tons of wheat.
The only reason I knew they ate corn in India is I have a vegetarian cookbook with a bunch of corn-based recipes from India.
The consumption is actually less than I would have expected from the book.
India is a very big and diverse place. Punjabis, Bengalis and Tamils have a whole lot less in common than Maineiacs, Alabamans and Californicators. They don't even speak the same language, except that quite a few speak English (sort of).