Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

This was just about 5 per cent of ethanol production. Maize is considered an ideal agricultural produce for manufacture of ethanol. In the United States of America, about one third of maize ...

The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize ...

The FAO Food Price Index, the benchmark for world food commodity prices, declined in January, averaging 124.9 points during ...

The findings reinforce the theory, based on genetic evidence from plants alive now, that domestication of maize may also have been completed in South America, as proposed in an article published ...

The challenging 2024 season produced some unwelcome weather for growing forage maize, but it also underlined several valuable lessons, says Simon Montgomery, ProCam Field Options technical lead.

The index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally traded food commodities, was 6.2% ...

Stella Karugi inspects her stunted maize crop at her Kanoga farm in Karia village within Nyeri town constituency, January 18, 2018. [Photo by Mose Sammy/Standard] Farmers in parts of the Rift ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Daniel Metto, a farmer in Kipkaren, said he has hived-off his five-acre piece of land to ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...