Meet the editor

Dr Akbar Hossain is presently working as a senior agronomist at the Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI), Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Dr Hossain finished his PhD degree on stress physiology of spring wheat in 2013, from the Institute of Ecology and Biological Sciences, Astrakhan State University, Astrakhan-Russia. His research interests and expertise are plant physiology (especially stress physiology), crop management,

weed management, weed biology and ecology, conservation agriculture, and climate change impact assessment on field crops through modeling. He has authored more than 142 national and international journal articles. Beside these, he is also serving as a voluntary reviewer/editor in different national and international journals. Further details on Dr Hossain are available in the following link: https://www. researchgate.net/profile/Akbar\_Hossain2?ev=hdr\_xprf

Contents

**Section 1**

Maize as Energy Crop

*and Nicholaos Danalatos*

in Developing Countries *by S.R. Krishna Motukuri*

Nutritive Value

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Africa: A Review

*by Kelvin Mulungu and John N. Ng'ombe*

*by Md. Abdul Mannan and Mariam Akter Shashi*

Improved Technologies for Higher Maize Production *by Manpreet Jaidka, Shikha Bathla and Ramanjit Kaur*

**Preface III**

Importance of Maize as Food and Feed Crop **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 33**

Adverse Effect of Changing Climate on Maize Production **45**

**Chapter 4 47**

**Chapter 5 59**

Production **79**

**Chapter 6 81**

Quality Protein Maize: An Alternative Food to Mitigate Protein Deficiency

Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Maize Production in Sub-Saharan

Amelioration of Drought Tolerance in Maize Using Rice Husk Biochar

Improved Management Approaches for the Sustainability of Maize

*by Elpiniki Skoufogianni, Alexandra Solomou, Georgios Charvalas* 

*by Shikha Bathla, Manpreet Jaidka and Ramanjit Kaur*
