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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports a corn harvested area in Ecuador of 365,334 ha, with a yield of 4.58 tons per hectare (t ha-1), and a production of 1,479,700 tons (t). These data demonstrate the importance of corn cultivation in the country, whose production is mainly oriented towards human consumption and animal feed. In Ecuador, research related to plant breeding, plant nutrition, plant pathology, and entomology plays an important role; while the use of biotechnology and its applications to increase crop productivity is incipient. Advances in plant breeding have been one of the most important factors to improve crop productivity in the two most important corn-producing regions of the country (Costa and Sierra). The objective of this article is to describe the contribution of science and technology generated in the country for a profitable and sustainable corn production.
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