Maize starch chemical formula (C6H10O5)n also know as Corn starch or flour is a fundamental ingredient in most of the packaged food and industrial products; it is extracted from the corn kernel and has a distinctive appreance and feed. Maize starch in natural, modified, pregeletanised and dextrinised forms provides viscosity, texture and other desired properties to all types of food & paper, products from canned chilled frozen to microwaveable goods, dry mixes and extruded snacks. Practically every industry in existence uses starch or its derivatives in one form or another. Maize is classified into dent, flint, waxy, sweet and pop corn categories. Dent corn also known as field corn, containing both hard and soft starch, becomes indented at maturity. Flint corn having hard, horny, rounded or short and flat kernels; with the soft and starchy endosperm is enclosed by hard outer layer. Both of these varieties are used for industrial purposes. Popcorn has small pointed and rounded kernels with very hard endosperm which on exposure to dry heat popped or evereted by the expulsion of the contained moisture and forming a White starchy mass many times the size of the original kernel. Sweet corn is distinguished by kernels containing a high percentage of sugar in the milk stage and therefore suitable for table use. Indian maize has white, red, purple, brown or multicolored kernels and is characteristically dent corn. The dent corn is useful for starch processing by wet milling method. The total area under maize cultivation in the world is 139 million hectares with a production of 598 million MT (mMT). USA is the world's largest producer and exporter of maize with an output of 240 mMT from an area of 29 million hectares. Other major producers are China (125 mMT), European Union (39 mMT), Brazil (37 mMT), Mexico (19 mMT), Argentina (14 mMT) and India (11 mMT). Due to demand growth, it is a good project for entrepreneurs to invest. Few Indian Major Players are as under:- Amaravati Agro Ltd. Anil Ltd. E I C L Ltd. Gayatri Bioorganics Ltd. Gujarat Ambuja Exports Ltd. Gulshan Polyols Ltd. Hindustan Maize Products Ltd. Indian Maize & Chemicals Ltd. Jayant Vitamins Ltd. K R B L Ltd. Kamala Sugar Mills Ltd. Laxmi Starch Ltd. Mahaan Foods Ltd. Origin Agrostar Ltd. Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols Ltd. Capacity : 86100 MT/Annum • Maize Starch : 13500 MT/Annum • Liquid Glucose : 7500 MT/Annum • Malto Dextrine Powder : 3000 MT/Annum • Malto Dextrine Syrup : 6000 MT/Annum • Dextrose Monohydrate : 7500 MT/Annum • Dextrose Anhydrate : 9000 MT/Annum • Sorbitol : 9000 MT/Annum • Power Plant : 4 MW