Corn, especially white varieties remains a staple food to a number of Filipinos especially in the Visayas. Likewise, there is a great demand of corn as livestock feeds in the country. Hence, corn planting is a popular and major agricultural activities. Where there is a scarce land resource for planting corn, coconut lands offer a good opportunity for this purpose as the interspaces between rows of coconut can accommodate about 6 to 9 rows of corn depending on the planting distance of coconut (i.e. 8 x 8 to 10 x 10
m sq). Corn is best intercropped when coconuts are young (1-5 years old and >10).
