It suggests the dogs were eating either maize, or animals fed on maize, or both.
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Long-cycle maize survived the drought, while the short-cycle maize most farmers grew did not.
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Worried about the projected impact of increasing heat on maize as a result of climate change, researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Research Programme on Maize of CGIAR, a global agricultural research organization, have bred heat-tolerant varieties of maize.
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While the company does not condone destroying forests for maize production, he said he could not be 100% sure its maize supply was free of maize grown illegally in the Menabe region.
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"Everything is on track so people will not be exposed to yellow maize ... There will be white maize available for human consumption and yellow maize for animal feed," Zokwana told Reuters in a telephone interview.
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The maize growers union noted that many French crops have been turned into fodder maize because they were too damaged by drought to end the growth cycle, which would dent the final grain maize harvest further.
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The government plans to import up to 700,000 tonnes of maize and with its usual sources of maize like Zambia and Tanzania facing lower harvests this year, Zimbabwe could end up receiving GM maize after all.
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The grain maize harvest is due to kick off in about 10 days in France while fodder maize cuttings have already started.
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And since maize in storage is often lost to moisture, pests or fungi, she said storing maize after harvesting was a problem.
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" Team Corn writes that maize is inconsistent with other usage of "corn," because no one says "popmaize," or "maize on the cob.
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BOUIS: We're not trying to change people's eating habits - if they are growing and eating maize, it's maize that we're trying to substitute.
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Zimbabwe does not accept GM maize imports, and when it has accepted emergency GM maize aid, it has been milled under security watch.
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The Talk page on Wikipedia discussing the Maize article lists four previous nominations for the article to be moved from Maize to Corn.
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Maize weevils, known as the greater rice weevil in the United States, are a major pest of maize and rice, hence the descriptive monikers.
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A 2009 government policy also sets the government purchase price for maize and other grains at parity, to encourage growing of alternatives to maize.
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"The maize crisis that led to flooding of duty-free maize imported into the country was a ploy by both the public and private sector players to profiteer from distortion of the maize value chain," the Senate committee said in its report published this week.
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Most of the maize imports could come from the United States rather than Mexico because U.S. maize is cheaper and supplies more abundant, analysts said.
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Maize prices have remained depressed with the white maize contract ending in August trading 0.98 percent higher at 2,052 rand ($151.81) a tonne by 1021 GMT.
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Moving among rows of maize plants, he pulls weeds and reaches for the maize heads, squeezing them to see if they are mature enough to harvest.
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That echoes Kamuru's experience: for him, keeping dairy cows generates more income than growing maize, in part because maize prices are kept low by cheap imports.
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Zambia, Zimbabwe's northern neighbor and major maize producer, has started a campaign aimed at stemming the armyworm, which has affected 124,000 hectares of maize in that country.
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Yields of crops such as maize and wheat have declined in some regions, while those of maize, wheat and sugar beets have increased in others in recent decades.
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"Maize prices were rising every week because of this panic and the implication was that the mealie meal price was getting higher," Katambo said, referring to maize meal.
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Yet those who ignored the advice and stuck with maize are also in trouble because of a government ban on the export of maize grown for domestic consumption.
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But maize is maize, and Dr Ané, Dr Shapiro and their colleagues have managed to cross-breed aerial roots into more manageable plants, which are being tested experimentally.
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However, the continent's top maize producer is suffering from the same drought and could reap its smallest maize crop in a decade this year, a Reuters poll showed.
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Maize prices are depressed due to bumper crops in the region including in neighboring countries such as Zimbabwe and Zambia, which has previously imported maize from South Africa.
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European farmers grow both grain maize, which is dried and sold on the market, and fodder maize that is harvested earlier and used directly on farms to feed livestock.
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Yields of crops such as maize and wheat have declined in some regions, while those of maize, wheat and sugar beets have increased in other regions in recent decades.
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Katambo said Zambia still had sufficient maize stocks and indications were that less than 1 million tonnes of maize had been bought from the 2 million tonnes the country produced.
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A quarter of maize grown in Britain now goes into such digesters, up from a hundredth just seven or eight years ago, says John Morgan of the Maize Growers Association.
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In April, Zambia's government imposed a ban on the export of maize and maize products to similarly drought-hit neighboring countries including Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe.
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In its first forecast for 2018 maize (corn) harvest, the ministry pegged production of grain maize, excluding seeds, at 12.8 million tonnes, down almost 10 percent from 14.3 million last year.
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"Torrential rains over the past few weeks haven't impacted maize crops so badly as in the case of wheat," a grain trader in Romania said, citing potential for bumper maize yields.
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South Africa is expected to have a maize surplus this season after a deficit last year when 7.5 million tonnes of maize was produced against national demand of 10.5 million tonnes.
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"They are going to have to switch from white to yellow," said Piet Faure, a maize trader at CJS Securities, adding that white maize would be too costly for most consumers.
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The poll sees the 2019 harvest consisting of 5.56 million tonnes of the food staple white maize and 5 million tonnes of yellow maize, which is used mainly in animal feed.
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HARARE, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's maize reserves have hit one million tonnes, the highest in more than 17 years, state media reported on Tuesday, after the southern African nation produced surplus maize.
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People in the outside world, many of whom happily eat yellow maize, may wonder what the fuss is all about - Italians consider their yellow maize version, polenta, a bit of a delicacy.
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The poll sees the 2018/19 harvest consisting of 5.61 million tonnes of the food staple white maize, and 6.52 million tonnes of yellow maize, which is used mainly in animal feed.
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" Pioneer, which makes foods such as maize meal, pasta and juices, said that high maize prices and a reduced raisin crop "will impact performance in the first half of the new financial year.
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Patchy rains and pest outbreaks have also threatened maize production in Zambia and Malawi, while Reuters journalists who traveled to Lesotho this weekend saw fields of stunted maize that looked in poor condition.
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The 22.4-member bloc has been hit by scorching weather over the summer with France, the EU's second-largest maize grower, seeing record-high temperatures that hurt maize plants in key development stages.
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Maize is one of the world's most important cereal crops.
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Watch your words, people: Grits are heavier than just maize.
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Minimum prices for maize and rapeseed were scrapped in 2015.
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Maize grows in ordered rows; cattle graze behind a fence.
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In France, maize has also suffered from hot, dry weather.
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Maize, a staple crop here, has been hit the hardest.
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Hybrid maize seeds contain less than 50% of authentic seed.
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In Rwanda, white maize and beans are the staple foods.
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Righetti started out studying the proteins of maize, in 1971.
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Last year, half of Malawi's maize was infected by armyworms.
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Failure to comply would result in police seizing the maize.
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They offer a cup of maize meal on hungry nights.
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Hint: It's not because of the maize and blue uniforms.
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But they did not stop at squash, beans and maize.
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In the past two decades, maize productivity there has doubled.
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Zimbabwe used to export maize; now it is an importer.
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The country has in the past sometimes mixed yellow and white maize for human consumption, but Cele said that if enough white maize could be obtained in the global market, this would not happen.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Crop-destroying caterpillars known as armyworms have ravaged 63,000 hectares of maize in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since December, causing local maize prices to triple, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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The report accused the government of "inconsistent, incoherent policies and pronouncements on maize importation", which led to a flood of maize imports which then depressed prices for local farmers once harvests eventually came in.
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Local brewers - for whom maize is a key ingredient - have also been hit with price hikes to produce the maize-brewed beer known as 'billy-billy' in the north and 'kwacha' in the south.
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The consultancy revised down its forecast of the 2017 maize harvest to 24.7 million tonnes from the previous estimate of 25 million because of a smaller-than-expected maize yield, it said in a statement.
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Planting another crop beneath the maize may help stop soil erosion.
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A more damaging criticism is that maize makes an inefficient fuel.
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Troops were on Friday picking the worms off maize in fields.
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Common crops farmed by WorldCover clients include maize, rice and peanuts.
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South Africa's ports are fully prepared receive maize imports, he added.
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Production of maize, a vital crop in east Africa, jumped sevenfold.
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Much of Bangaldesh's maize is used to feed animals, including chickens.
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Maize, also known as corn, is a staple food in Africa.
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He said farmers were also holding maize reserves from last year.
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"Farmers will get a poor maize harvest this season," he predicted.
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The tender seeks corn (maize) free of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs).
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The tender seeks corn (maize) free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan 15 (Reuters) - South African white maize futures prices hit 11-month highs on Monday as a spell of hot, dry weather raised concerns about plantings and yields over a swathe of the maize belt.
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Adolph Njokwe, a maize farmer in Muyuka, said he harvested 257 tonnes of maize from his 20113-acre (22011-hectare) farm in 210, up from 22015 tonnes in 2014, before he used the new seed varieties.
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The latest farming boom started in 2006, when demand for crops such as maize (corn), sugar cane and soyabeans generated record profits thanks to demand for (maize and sugar-based) ethanol, and the then skyrocketing Chinese economy.
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Only one GM crop, a variety of maize, is grown in Europe.
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Her maize sucks up nutrients more quickly than she can replace them.
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Intercropping was introduced to maize farmers in East Africa in the 20153s.
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South Africa's ports are fully prepared to receive maize imports, Cele added.
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As a result, he bumped up his maize harvest by 3003 percent.
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In economic terms, there is a flourishing future for maize in Britain.
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Only one GM crop, a type of maize, is grown in Europe.
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In southern Africa maize was grown on large estates by white settlers.
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The country's maize harvest hit a record 16.82 million tonnes in 2017.
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Usually it rather happens late August, early September, after maize crops' flowering.
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Malawi produced 3.5 million tons of maize in the 2016/17 season.
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Chopping down a maize crop before it is ripe might sound unwise.
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It added that the drought led to a decrease in maize volumes.
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Drought-resistant maize created in this way is already on the market.
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The top-performing strains boosted maize and soyabean yields by about 3%.
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Private millers have previously said maize stocks would not last beyond June.
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One branch slips under a motorway and out into fields of maize.
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Harare, Zimbabwe: Sadza (finely ground corn maize), dried vegetables, beef, and tea.
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So does the decrease in wheat and maize harvest in the tropics.
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For Coxhead, Maize meets three of the criteria: recognizability, naturalness, and precision.
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A single day can require 25 kilograms of maize flour, Nabatanzi says.
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Even now, purchases of anything beyond maize meal is considered a luxury.
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But Kenya's bestselling maize seed, known as 614, was released in 1986.
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This year, South Africa, which produces more than 40 percent of Southern African maize may need to import up to 5 million tonnes of maize due to drought, the country's largest producer group, Grain SA said this week.
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According to the agriculture ministry, up to 80 percent of the country's maize production comes from small-scale farmers, and poor harvests this year resulted in the country having to import 700,000 tonnes of maize to avert hunger.
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Historical records tell us that Columbus introduced maize to Europe in 1493, but maize pollen doesn't show up in the ice core until the mid-1700s, a sign that its large-scale regional production didn't take off immediately.
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In early estimates for the 2018/2019 season, farmers have planted around 13 percent of the country's yellow maize, which is mainly used in animal feed, and between 70 to 80 percent of the white maize, pushing prices higher.
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National ratings for grain maize have tumbled by almost 10 points in the past two weeks to 62 percent good/excellent, and the farm ministry's first harvest forecast this week projected a 10 percent drop in grain maize output.
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Rosina Maize is proud of her husband Earl's accomplishments as Cassini's program manager.
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But it's not just the staple crop of maize that is under attack.
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White maize prices are just off a near two-year peak last week.
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"The year-on-year decrease mostly reflects anticipated reduced maize output," FAO said.
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New varieties of maize, tailored for the British climate, can be harvested earlier.
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More stringent conditions mean the outlook for maize is no longer so sunny.
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LILONGWE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Elias Kanyangale is ecstatic about his maize harvest.
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"Maize is a crop that is very sensitive to climate change," said Navarro.
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Crops that use a different form of photosynthesis are maize, sugarcane and sorghum.
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The floods appear to have ruined maize crops, raising the risk of hunger.
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They want jobs, schools and cleaner government, not fields to grow maize in.
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The central African country produced about 900,000 metric tons of maize last year.
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In particular, maize, the main cereal in pre-Columbian America, employs C4 photosynthesis.
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MAIZE: And in Saturn, it is just cyclonic rims, a jet stream size.
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At the same site, Valdez uncovered offerings of maize, chili, peppers, and llamas.
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Philbert Nyinondi planting maize seeds for the first GMO field trial in Tanzania.
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At a nearby market, bags of maize, the staple, are getting too costly.
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The government has not yet estimated the amount of maize affected, he said.
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"I used to barely get by when growing maize and beans," he explained.
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Euronext's main commodities derivatives are its milling wheat, corn (maize) and rapeseed contracts.
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"If such smuggling continues, local (maize) supplies will continue to dwindle," said Mbewe.
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Euronext posted reports for its milling wheat, rapeseed, rapeseed meal and maize contracts.
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Pro-maize Wikipedians argue that "corn" can has many meanings depending on locality.
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He believes the number of maize/corn debates greatly decreased after this intervention.
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Almost all of his 10 acres of maize have been destroyed by armyworm.
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"We want to avoid dependence on maize as a staple crop," he said.
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After trees are felled, the area is torched to clear land for maize.
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After trees are felled, the area is torched to clear land for maize.
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Its maize fields are now almost twice as productive as the African average.
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Maize prices have climbed amid concerns that dry conditions in the main part of South Africa's maize belt have delayed crop plantings outside the optimum planting window, threatening yields for the staple food that is also used in livestock feed.
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"Maize" is more specific, more scientific, and those who support using Maize as the article name cite Wikipedia's guidelines for flora naming conventions, which indicate that the articles should "follow usage in reliable sources," which is often the current scientific name.
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Right: Image of a maize weevil impression from the surface of a pottery fragment.
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But the new pot uncovered at Tatesaki contains an unprecedented number of maize weevils.
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The government is importing Mexican maize and distributing it to millers at subsidised rates.
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Farmer Karikoga Muromo harvested 200kg of maize last season using the heat-tolerant seeds.
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France harvested 13.5 million tonnes of grain maize in 2015, farm ministry data showed.
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Another pest, known as the maize stem borer, was found in a fifth municipality.
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"We have no doubt that Titan will put us into that gap," says Maize.
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Some Feed the Future farmers are contributing maize to the disaster response, USAID said.
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After independence, governments doled out maize seed and fertiliser, even where soils were unsuitable.
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Maize fields, which are widely irrigated, should suffer from increasing restrictions on water use.
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Maize is a staple crop in the southern African nation of 19 million people.
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The data took 84 minutes to reach NASA antennas in Canberra, Australia, Maize said.
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That could lead to more demand for maize and for land to grow it.
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But on his one-acre piece of land stand thousands of green maize plants.
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He ran a successful farm that produced paprika, tobacco, chilies, passion fruit, and maize.
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Urban farmers' tractors are hired by smallholders to process maize or plough the fields.
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But its favourite is maize—the staple for more than 200m sub-Saharan Africans.
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Malawi's maize production in the 2016/17 farming season stood at 3.2 million tonnes.
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Many motions have sought to dislodge the name of "maize," but it has remained.
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Yellow maize was used in pap during a severe shortage in the early 1990s.
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Hand-tended fields of potatoes and maize covered the floodplain, fringed by dazzling wildflowers.
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Shops are running out of subsidised maize meal while prices of basic goods soar.
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Shops are running out of subsidised maize meal while prices of basic goods soar.
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By 2017 private companies were selling half of their maize seed to the government.
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THAT U.S. SOYBEAN, WHICH YOU JUST SPOKE ABOUT, AND MAIZE IMPORTS WILL BE HALTED.
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In early estimates farmers have planted around 95 percent of the country's yellow maize, which is mainly used in animal feed and between 70 to 80 percent of the white maize, which is used in human consumption, the Grain SA lobby group said.
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Gitonga is one among a growing number farmers in Meru County who are cultivating maize to produce silage – maize stalks and immature ears that are chopped up and then compressed for at least three weeks in an airless container to ferment without rotting.
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The average field planted with maize—Africa's most important crop, which supplies 30% of people's calories in some countries—yields a third as much as a Chinese maize field of the same size and just a fifth as much as an American one.
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Image: Hiroki ObataThat ancient Japanese artisans embedded maize weevils into their pottery is well established.
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Along the sides lie miles of maize fields and a few farmers tending to them.
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In response to the crisis, the government banned the export of maize earlier this month.
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It can cause extensive crop damage and has a preference for maize, the regional staple.
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Preserving its wild relatives is key, but maize lines are dying out in Central America.
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Preserving its wild relatives is key, but maize lines are dying out in Central America.
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Late rains prompted some maize farmers in the western regions to plant two months late.
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Herbicide-resistant varieties include maize, soybean and cotton; insect-resistant crops include eggplant and poplar.
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"The emotional response runs full spectrum," Earl Maize, the Cassini program manager, tells The Verge.
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Since then, she has switched entirely to drought-resistant varieties of maize, cowpea and beans.
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Maize, grown mainly in states that voted for Mr Trump, will be a tempting target.
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Subsistence maize farmers recovering from last year's El Nino-triggered drought are also at risk.
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This one, meanwhile, is officially the Ear of Maize Emoji — not the Ear of Corn.
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China is the second largest maize-producing country in the world behind the United States.
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Her small farm in Rwanda, where she grows maize, beans, bananas and coffee, is thriving.
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In March, the government appealed for $1.6 billion to buy maize to feed its citizens.
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Esther Manganjala points to the desolate field where she has planted her maize and cotton.
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Rice requires about four times as much water as maize, pulses or oilseeds, for instance.
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"I used to plant maize and beans but I could not harvest much," he said.
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N'Tji Coulibaly of the Institut d'Economie Rurale in Mali has developed six hybrid maize varieties.
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AQUAmax and Artesian are drought-tolerant strains of maize developed, respectively, by DuPont and Syngenta.
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Kharif crops include rice, maize, sorghum and cotton, and are planted during the monsoon season.
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After a long drive through maize fields, I met him at an airfield outside Harare.
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The country's primary maize seed manufacturer, Seed Co, has invested in new drought-resistant varieties.
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Made from maize and naturally gluten-free, they appeal to the health-conscious Brooklyn crowd.
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At the same time, the consultancy raised its outlook for Ukraine's maize harvest and exports.
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She still walks miles to a field to grow beans, manioc and maize to eat.
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Because scientists are always working on maize, new hybrids are generally better than old ones.
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"There are roughly 35 million hectares of maize planted per year in Africa and if (the worm is) not in all those maize fields now, it will be very soon in the next planting season or so," said Allan Hruska, principal technical coordinator at FAO.
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The white maize futures contract due in March closed near a one-year high, up 1.49 percent to 3,280 rand, while yellow maize futures due in March closed at 2,840 rand just under its peak of 2,872, levels that were last seen in January 2017.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's maize output is expected to rise slightly in 2151.81 than previously estimated on the back of late harvests from the central and western parts of the maize belt, a Reuters poll of four traders and market analysts showed on Friday.
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Greenpeace, an NGO, reported in January that 93% of samples taken from maize fields in Liaoning province in the north-east tested positive for genetic modification, as did nearly all the seed samples and maize-based foods it gathered at supermarkets in the area.
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For centuries, farmers in parts of West Africa have grown maize alongside cassava and sweet potatoes.
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The Danube is a major route for east European grain exports, especially maize, to western Europe.
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Maize is the key ingredient for sadza, a stiff porridge that is the national staple food.
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What looked from a distance like fertile fields actually contain parched bean plants or malnourished maize.
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A German trader said the new restrictions were imposed on Russian wheat and also maize (corn).
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USAID is providing almost $4 million of maize and wheat seeds for more than 200,000 families.
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As herds were moved into barns, and thus away from grass, more and more munched maize.
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A German company has bought 40,000 hectares of private land to grow maize and soya beans.
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It doesn't help that a severe drought this year has cut exports of soyabeans and maize.
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Sierra Mixe maize is a giant crop, standing five or six metres tall when fully grown.
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Matutu grows maize - and now vegetables - on a five-hectare plot, half of which is arable.
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"Growing maize is not the only solution for food security," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Our warm-up was a 230-minute walk through flat maize fields to the park's entrance.
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"I can't tell exactly if it was solely fake maize seeds, diseases or drought," he said.
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Last month authorities impounded 28 trucks carrying maize bound for Malawi and "restricted" exports to Zimbabwe.
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Eventually, the island ran out of food, and they moved to another one, to harvest maize.
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But that has not persuaded Sikhathele Sibanda to grow something besides thirsty maize, despite government urging.
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High prices and a regional drought have caused a national shortage of the staple maize flour.
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Tongaat also produces starch, which it said was negatively impacted by higher drought-related maize costs.
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The Danube is a major route for east European grain exports, especially maize, to west Europe.
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Between 2007 and 2011, global food prices for basic foods like maize, rice, and wheat skyrocketed.
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The area, if irrigated, could grow wheat, cotton, rice, sugarcane, maize, and other crops, said Goraya.
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Poor maize yields may force the country to import half of what is needed this year.
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He was at mass daily, most dutifully after his older brother, Michael, died from poisoned maize.
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Malawi's maize production in the 2016/17 farming season rose a third to 3.2 million tonnes.
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Like many agricultural mazes across the country, the Maize maze is known for its impressive designs.
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Total grain shipments in January - including barley, malting barley, maize, waxy maize and durum wheat - reached a four-year high for that month at 1.57 million tonnes, compared with 1.70 million the previous month, which was the highest for December in Refinitiv data going back to 2009.
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This year its Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has said it will buy "small grains" such as sorghum or finger millet from farmers at the same price as maize - or let farmers who grow small grains swap them for an equivalent amount of maize to take home.
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The country needs to import about 1.2 million tonnes of white maize and 2.6 million tonnes of yellow maize, according to the government, based on the current conservative domestic crop estimate of 7.4 million tonnes, with only Mexico and the United States able to plug the shortfall.
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Maize has also been genetically modified to include the desired DNA traits that thrive in drought conditions.
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Using x-ray CT scans, Obata's team counted 417 adult maize weevils embedded into the recovered pottery.
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By 2003, Jomon pottery with impressions of maize weevils had been discovered at multiple sites around Japan.
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But this season I harvested three 50kg bags and two 20-litre tins (40kg) of white maize.
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The European Commission cut its maize production forecast last week to 62.5 million tonnes from 65.5 million.
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"We grow beans, maize, wheat, and oats," he explains at Luis's farm, surrounded by piles of corn.
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange plans to introduce a regional contract for Zambian white maize later this year.
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Thanks to hardier seeds from the local agricultural office he now grows mostly maize, Ethiopia's cheapest staple.
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The result is that maize is increasingly sprouting in parts of the country with few dairy herds.
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One of his company's products is a GM maize seed that long ago received official safety approval.
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"Rwanda is a small country ... we risk seeing this pest spread to all maize farms," he said.
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Senamiso is now expecting more than the 250 50-kg bags of maize she harvested last season.
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Maize, rice, wheat will become about half as productive, and rice and wheat will become less nutritious.
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They advertise returns of around 12-20 percent for investments in soybeans, maize, tomatoes, poultry and cattle.
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Widespread water restrictions, including for farms, are also affecting conditions for French maize, which is often irrigated.
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In South Africa the government reckons that the maize harvest will be 27% lower than last year.
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"We have started making efforts to popularize the cultivation of pulses, maize, vegetables and oilseeds," Bains said.
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An El Nino-induced drought has hit southern Africa, slashing the output of the staple maize crop.
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Weather conditions across a swathe of the maize belt have remained mostly hot and dry since then.
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Several important crops that started in the tropics use it, notably maize, millet, sorghum and sugar cane.
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Food prices in Zambia's southwestern maize belt have risen, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
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By a doorway a woman tends a fire in a shopping trolley, roasting maize cobs to sell.
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South African maize producers called for much more far-reaching rule changes to cope with the situation.
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South Africa is the continent's biggest maize producer and the world's second largest exporter of citrus fruits.
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In some nearby shade, Ignacio's wife, Carmela Molina, serves us tejate, a filling maize and cacao drink.
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"The decline in July was driven by weaker export quotations for wheat, maize and rice," FAO said.
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At this point, "maize" therefore seems to be the winner of this long-running debate on Wikipedia.
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Outside southern Africa, white maize is grown in significant quantities only in Mexico and the United States.
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Together, rice, maize and wheat account for 42% of the direct calories consumed worldwide, the study states.
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Moore became incensed in the third quarter, when the Wolfpack's Akela Maize picked up her fourth foul.
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Zimbabwe's annual maize consumption is 1.2 million tonnes and the country has 500,000 tonnes in strategic reserves.
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Maize 614 is produced by a state-controlled outfit, the Kenya Seed Company, which dominates the market.
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Most of Poland's maize crop has now been harvested apart from a few isolated regions, Sabaranski added.
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An El Nino-induced drought in southern Africa crippled production of maize, sugar and other agricultural products.
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South Americans were chewing up and spitting out maize to make chicha and yuca to make masato.
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Winston Babbage, commodities vice president for the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union, said the country's large-scale farmers, for instance, who have better access to irrigation, might be able to grow enough maize to support the Grain Marketing Board's offer let small-scale farmers swap their sorghum harvests for maize.
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Why the Jomon people mixed maize weevils into their pottery is a mystery, but Obata has a theory.
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It added the northern French port of Dunkirk as delivery point for the maize contract earlier this month.
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The effects of CO2 on protein levels are less pronounced in maize, sorghum and beans, the authors said.
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"My father used to plough this land with an ox," Kiplagat said, gesturing at a harvested maize field.
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Here, the research team tested fresh maize seeds and stems as well as the soil from nearby farms.
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Nearly every sample of fresh maize seeds and stems had levels of chlorpyrifos that were higher than authorized.
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Instead, she watches her in-laws harvest cassava, maize and potatoes about 50 meters from her front door.
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Fields of mostly cotton have diversified to include water-smart sorghum, maize, pigeon peas, vegetables and also flowers.
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Faced with the loss of their biggest market, American maize farmers might press the White House to relent.
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By adding vital nutrients to exhausted soil, trees can double crop yields when grown alongside maize and millet.
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He has experimented with plant spacing, finding that sowing maize seeds farther apart produces bigger, more marketable cobs.
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He believes small grains can effectively compete with or outperform maize if the country invested more in them.
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Each partner would continue exporting independently other products like maize, oilseeds, malting barley and durum wheat, he said.
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Though sorghum is not as dominant or as widely traded as maize or rice, it is still important.
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Crops like maize (corn), millet and sorghum have been particularly wrecked by the caterpillar on its new continent.
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They have also begun growing drought-hardy sweet potatoes to supplement maize, the region's increasingly at-risk staple.
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And where there's smoke, there's PAHs, released from burning fuels such as wood, maize cobs and cow dung.
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About half of Guatemala's population of 17 million is indigenous, many of them subsistence bean and maize farmers.
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Many farmers are using grain maize for on-farm animal feed instead of selling the crop, it said.
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Monsanto conducted trials of GM maize and cotton in some African countries, including Zimbabwe between 2001 and 2005.
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The grain maize (corn) crop will rise 23.8% from last year's heatwave damaged crop to 4.13 million tonnes.
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She grows tomatoes, a far more profitable crop than the maize most other farmers in the village grow.
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"I do not see any valid reason for using maize and broken rice for ethanol production," he said.
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Tucked among the watermelons and maize in lorries trundling into China are jade, illegally felled rosewood and heroin.
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Most of the maize, beans, sweet reed and watermelon she planted in late December are struggling, she said.
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Zimbabwe's annual maize consumption is 1.5 million tonnes but the 2015 harvest was half that following another drought.
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Maize sowing had benefited from favorable conditions, with frost and drought not seen threatening emerging crops, they added.
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High maize (corn) prices continued to generate strong demand for German feed wheat by feed manufacturers, traders said.
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In Germany, the farm cooperatives association forecasts the grain maize area will increase 9 percent to 448,000 hectares.
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Every year, much of the maize harvested from her five-acre farm would go to waste, she said.
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The grain maize (corn) crop is projected to fall 2.6 percent to 4.30 million tonnes, the association said.
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These communities farmed crops like maize, beans, squash, and quinoa, often in irrigated terraces built on mountain slopes.
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Her 650-hectare farm, Mnandi Africa, produces certified maize seed, grows indigenous organic grains, and trains women farmers.
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But a shortage of white maize looms after South Africa experienced its driest year on record in 5.23.
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"The condition of maize varies by region due to uneven rain received at key vegetation stages," Sabaranski said.
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"White maize harvesting is experiencing grade problems with the latest and last hectares being harvested," a trader said.
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The longest lines were for the food — traditional dishes like Native American fry bread, venison, bison and maize.
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It prefers to feed on maize but also has an affinity for rice, sugarcane, cotton and vegetable crops.
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An El Nino-induced drought has hit southern Africa and cut the output of the staple maize crop.
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The pest can also cause extensive damage to crops and has a preference for maize, the regional staple.
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Onshore, we followed her through a maize field to a spot where she stopped and looked around fearfully.
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South Africa feeds itself and is the continent's largest maize producer and the world's second-biggest citrus exporter.
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Of the five major grains grown in the region (maize, millet, rice, wheat, and sorghum), maize is the most important in terms of yield and caloric value—but yields of the grain must be at least doubled in the coming decades if there is any hope of sufficient food production.
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A huge increase in corn production means maize is likely to have supplanted rice as the most planted crop.
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Artisans used other insects, too, but maize weevils were a clear favorite, representing 90 percent of all recorded impressions.
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Image: Hiroki ObataIn the latest development, Obata has uncovered the first maize weevil impressions in pottery found in Hokkaido.
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Farm Africa and its partners will help Tanzanian and Ugandan smallholders store their surpluses of rice, maize and beans.
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"We left the world informed but still wondering," Cassini program manager Earl Maize said today in a press conference.
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M.P. said he recently came across around 80 people on his maize field filling large bags with corn stalks.
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Kipunjis raid maize farms bordering the reserve, and land owners will target the creatures in retaliation for their pilfering.
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Euronext's main commodities derivatives are its milling wheat <0#BL2:>, corn (maize) <0#EMA:> and rapeseed <0#COM:> contracts.
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Sorghum and millet, which have higher tolerance to drought and heat, could replace maize in most places under threat.
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Maize, he said "is a grain that needs a lot of water" - something southern Mali no longer reliably has.
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South Africa's government estimates it will need to import around 5 million tonnes of maize in 2016, Treasury said.
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And unlike the genetic codes of staples like rice, soya and maize, scientists struggled until 2017 to crack it.
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The initial crops expected to be priced, bought, and sold on the platform include sunflowers, millet, corn, and maize.
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The quantity of maize used for feed shot up from 300,000 tonnes to 1.8m tonnes between 2003 and 2015.
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Lots of shops have run out of staples, as customers rush to buy 50kg bags of sugar or maize.
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Horses, cattle and cotton were introduced to the Americas; maize, potatoes, chilli and tobacco to Europe, Africa and Asia.
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She is now putting it in for her maize crop too, although too late to rescue this season's harvest.
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DR. EARL MAIZE, CASSINI PROJECT MANAGER,JPL: One of the most iconic moments for Cassini was landing on Titan.
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The governments of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, have reported losses of 281,000 hectares of bean and maize crops.
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Maize said Cassini's data, sent until the final fiery moment, was already being studied by NASA analysts in Arizona.
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But the government has been reluctant to approve the growing of GM staples such as maize (corn) and rice.
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These two, intriguingly, are competitors with another drought-tolerant maize strain, DroughtGuard, developed by Monsanto using the transgenic approach.
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So-called row crops—the maize and soyabeans that cover much of America's Midwest—are being teched up, too.
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Harare is holding 250,000 tonnes of maize in strategic reserves, half of its optimal requirements, the agriculture minister said.
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South African crop planting, including yellow maize used in poultry feed, were hit hard by the drought, stoking inflation.
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Some of this maize was then sold to the state cereals produce board at a profit, the committee said.
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Official estimates of the damage to maize by both the drought and armyworms are underway, the government has said.
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Maize is South Africa's staple crop and the size of the harvest has huge implications for food price inflation.
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South Africa may have to import up to 6 million tonnes of maize this year, over half its requirements.
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From jollof rice (the original jambalaya) to pap (a maize porridge), the restaurant serves specialties from across the continent.
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Senator Maize Hirono of Hawaii was among the Democrats who also want to protect millions of parents of Dreamers.
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The authorization covers Syngenta product Bt11 x MIR162 x MIR604 x GA21 and 10 related types of GM maize.
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Last year, he planted two fields with maize, one in the traditional way and one using his new skills.
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The Grain Marketing Board (GMB), the pillar of Zimbabwe's command economy in agriculture, once kept plentiful stores of maize.
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Maize is the country's staple crop, while soybeans are used in the production of cooking oil and animal feed.
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All they can afford to eat, he said, are vegetables and sadza, a thick porridge of boiled maize meal.
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A CENTURY AGO American crop scientists began experimenting with the plant known there as corn, and elsewhere as maize.
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STAR's head of communication Karine Rajaona Razafindrakoto told Reuters 11% of the its maize comes from the Menabe region.
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Malawi relies heavily on rain-fed agriculture, and most of its maize is grown on small plots by subsistence farmers.
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Santa Ana Zegache Journal SANTA ANA ZEGACHE, Mexico — In the birthplace of maize, nobody seemed to need Juan Velasco's crop.
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Often intercropped with maize and cotton, cowpea plants provide shade and dense cover that help protect soil and preserve moisture.
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"As such, my maize field looks more healthy and robust compared to other gardens that never applied it," Thom said.
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He said Zimbabwe had 876,000 tonnes of maize in strategic grain reserves, enough to feed the country for seven months.
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"The cost of maize has gone up significantly and that is fueling inflation," Zambia's Deputy Finance Minister Christopher Mvunga said.
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The 20153-member bloc harvested 22015 million tonnes of maize last year, down from a record 24 million in 230.
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Romania's 2015 maize harvest fell 26 percent to 8.9 million tonnes at a meager yield of 3.5 tonnes per hectare.
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Some traders deal in charcoal; other hoist sacks of maize onto bicycles, slipping truckloads across one bag at a time.
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Southern farmland, good for such crops as wheat and maize, attracted destitute peasants who purchased smallholdings, which they tilled themselves.
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Education for her and her siblings, who sell maize cobs to commuters in passing cars, is too expensive to countenance.
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Cele also said the ministry was assessing the availability of white maize imports from Mexico to fill domestic food demand.
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Cereal prices fell partly because new crops weighed on rice export quotations and export competition drove down maize, FAO said.
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The fields are tended by some 30 million smallholder farmers who depend on maize for food and income, Hruska said.
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South Africa feeds itself and is the continent's largest maize producer and the world's second-biggest exporter of citrus fruits.
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Aid workers distributed maize meal in the Chipinge district of eastern Zimbabwe, where there was no power or piped water.
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Alice Kachere, who also farms in Lilongwe, grew more maize than soya this year, fearing lower prices for the legume.
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Kachere hopes to sell her bumper harvest of 12.5 tonnes of maize and buy seed and equipment for next season.
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If the pest is not controlled, it could gobble up as much as 20% of the region's total maize crop.
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He has even built a feed mill to grind maize, mustard oil cake and other raw materials into fish pellets.
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Walking down a market street, Mr Haque dips his hand into a sack of maize and a sack of rice.
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Standing in the way of herds are fields of maize, beans, peas and cassava, often trampled and eaten by elephants.
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Officials once touted goals of growing the majority of the country's rice, wheat and maize using GM strains by 2010.
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The horrific results found that mothers were kept their pups with their stash of maize and eventually ate them alive.
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So, the scientists decided to test out hamster subjects with a purely maize-based diet but added B3 for some.
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"Their skin is peeling off and it's like maize-meal when they scratch it," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Small farmers produce about 80 percent of the country's staple maize crop, according to the state-owned Grain Marketing Board.
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"If needed, we will produce maize in char lands of the country as raw material for our plant," Aftabuddin said.
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The successes were the transfer into a range of plants, particularly maize, soyabeans and cotton, of two types of gene.
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The agriculture sector expanded by 33.6% quarter-on-quarter, boosted by strong harvests of crops such as maize and wheat.
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That's much more than the 35 shillings he used to get from local buyers for 1 kg of regular maize.
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"So farmers continue trying to grow maize, though in most cases the success rate has been very low," he said.
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Police in Chitipa detained at least 17 similar trucks carrying white maize last month, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite years of experience, Charlei Sousa finds himself struggling to grow maize.
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There's a breathtaking view over slopes forested with pine and eucalyptus trees, with maize plants squeezed into every available space.
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Yellow maize has also hit records this week and the March contract is just shy of 4,000 rand a ton.
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The retail price of maize and sunflower oil products increased on average by 32 percent year-on-year in February.
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His first year, he invested nearly $80,000 in planting maize — but without irrigation, a dry spell wiped out the crop.
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Surpassing the 1.5 °C threshold could potentially trigger major "production losses" of millions of tonnes of maize, wheat and soybean.
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Kenya's agriculture ministry has declared a food crisis as the maize harvest is set to drop by about a quarter.
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Herders in the region are increasingly farming crops like maize or onions in addition to keeping livestock, said De Bac.
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The southern African nation has since 2001 relied on imports and foreign donors to meet demand for the staple maize.
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The rain and the sun no longer balance, complains one farmer, Zaituni Mudondo, banging a maize cob on the ground.
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Climate change may also be having an impact: three out of the past five years have been poor for maize.
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STAR buys 13,000 tonnes of maize throughout Madagascar, representing 2.65% of the country's total annual production (490,000 tonnes), Ambroise said.
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Despite the emergency food rations her family receives, and a loan taken out to buy maize, it was not enough.
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Her homestead of thatched-roof huts teemed with children tending their chores, grinding nuts into paste and maize into meal.
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US auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and US soybean and maize imports will be halted.
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The top three commodities exported to Mexico are maize (corn), soyabeans and pork; Iowa is a major producer of all these.
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Maize weevils are not indigenous to Japan, likely arriving with Japanese ships from the Korean peninsula many thousands of years ago.
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The secret of her successful harvest is simple: A type of maize seed that has been bred to tolerate high temperatures.
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"This is affecting almost every maize farm that uses irrigation," says Dr. Godfrey Chikwenhere, chief entomologist at Zimbabwe's Ministry of Agriculture.
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Maize is a staple food crop in southern Africa and a poor, worm-affected harvest is likely to have serious effects.
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The former Mombasa street hawker's fields are a mosaic of fruit trees, maize planted in water-holding pits, legumes and sugarcane.
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Some spectators cheered; others, afraid the drone might land on them, took shade next to tall maize plants, shielding their heads.
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It is also forecast to import 900,000 tonnes of corn (maize) in 2015/16, down from 2.36 million in 2014/15.
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A dispute between Volkswagen and a supplier halted car production at some factories, and a drought cut coffee and maize harvests.
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Growing corn (maize) as a feedstock to make ethanol occupies land that could otherwise be used for growing food, for example.
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Though it does not have supply management for dairy products, it subsidises maize and cotton seed, which go into animal feed.
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Two hundred farmers in Kalie and the surrounding villages now plant the drought-resistant variety of maize Nduku introduced them to.
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"The region between the rings and Saturn is 'the big empty,' apparently," said Cassini program manager Earl Maize in a statement.
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Even South Africa, usually a net exporter of grains to its neighbors, has been forced to import maize, its staple food.
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IN A field on the outskirts of Norwich, Innes McEwan, head of farming at Future Biogas, explains the benefits of maize.
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Consequently, excellent recent harvests of the most widely consumed grains and seeds—wheat, maize, soybeans—have kept a lid on prices.
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"There's a sense of loss," Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL, said earlier this month at a NASA press conference.
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"We used to plant yams or potatoes but now the order is: plant only maize," farmer Bernard Bimenyimana, 56, told Reuters.
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Maize is the staple food in eastern and southern Africa, where in some countries it provides over half of calories consumed.
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In February Edgar Lungu, the president of Zambia, asked "whether maize should be the ultimate crop for survival as a people".
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Driving through the area takes one past field after field of stunted and withered maize, much of it barely knee high.
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After poor maize harvests, she started cultivating tomatoes, cabbages, butternut squash, rape and leaf vegetable choumoellier, using water-saving drip irrigation.
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White maize is the main source of calories for many South Africans while sorghum is used in animal feed and alcohol.
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Armyworm moths lay eggs in maize plants and the caterpillars have also been known to march en masse across the landscape.
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Malawi's maize crop, the staple grain for the impoverished nation, was devastated last year by a drought triggered by El Nino.
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The armyworms are caterpillars that "march" across the landscape in large groups feasting on young maize plants, wiping out entire fields.
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Poor rainfall has left parched, cracked soil, fields of withered maize and bean crops, and empty water wells in these areas.
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She said that more than 3,000 hectares of maize had been lost, and that coconut and banana production had also suffered.
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She also said that the U.S. would provide nearly $4 million in maize and wheat seed for more than 226,000 households.
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Ramaphosa has stressed that food production and security in the continent's biggest maize producer, must not be threatened by land reform.
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Countries and regions often have different names for crops - for example, corn in the United States is maize in South Africa.
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That has brought GM crops to the fore, especially maize, a staple crop grown and consumed in most sub-Saharan countries.
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Though the fall armyworm prefers maize, it also attacked sorghum and millet, two of Cameroon's other staple crops, earlier this year.
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Mangudya said Zimbabwe had 250,000 tonnes in its strategic reserves, adding that the country had enough maize to last until September.
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Improved weather conditions since last season's drought have pushed down maize and overall food prices and helped improve the inflation outlook.
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Malawi's maize crop, the staple grain, was devastated last year by a regional drought triggered by an El Nino weather pattern.
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Drought has slashed bean and maize harvests by up to 90 percent in some areas and forced families to cut meals.
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Maize smuggled to Zambia and Tanzania - from where it can be sold to other countries - fetches higher prices than at home.
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"Many people are eating little more than a meal a day – typically just maize or cassava root and leaves," it said.
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In May, a cash crunch forced the U.N. to slash food rations in half, to 6 kg (13 lb) of maize.
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She said government stocks of maize, the staple food, were 91,326 tonnes as of March 10 - enough to last three months.
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The food and drinks company, which uses maize in many of its products, said it was unable to counter the shortfall.
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Maize production dropped by 40 percent in Zimbabwe in 2015–16 due to poor rains, according to the Commercial Farmers Union.
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The redirection of "corn" to the "maize" page has sparked a debate that has dragged on for at least a decade.
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In 1986, Nigeria briefly banned the import of malted barley, and its breweries were forced to rely on sorghum and maize.
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Large swathes of scorched land decimated the maize crop, with current forecasts pointing to a 26.6 percent lower harvest this year.
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But it wasn't until decades later that scientists apart from maize specialists understood and recognized the immense value of her discovery.
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Maize meal, a staple of the Zimbabwean diet, doubled in price in November to 101 Zimbabwe dollars per 10-kilogram sack.
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Official estimates of the damage to maize by both the drought and armyworms are underway, government and farmer organisations have said.
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The audit will be conducted by Fanamby, a local conservation group that has been investigating the maize business for several years.
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This was mainly due to a cut to market supply, as more maize was expected to be used directly on farms.
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On the lower strip, where she has applied her composted manure, knee-high maize and beans fight for space to grow.
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We spotted the university's trademark blue and maize "M" logo on the wall and felt like we were back on campus.
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As a child, they could depend on the rains to plant their maize and sorghum, a grain used to feed livestock.
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