Maize is Africa’s most widely grown crop, but its vulnerability to climate change is derailing the continent’s efforts to end hunger. Now, startups and NGOs are looking for new ways to future-proof ...

In his research, he investigated the influence of plant population (the number of plants per unit area) and row spacing on rainfed maize production in no-tillage- and conservation agriculture systems ...

This is according to the third round of crop estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture projecting that maize production. The assessment exercise shows the crop yield of 4.4million metric tonnes this ...

On March 5, the Kenyan Government issued a ban on the importation of maize from Uganda. The decision, according to the head of Kenyan Agriculture and Food Authority, stemmed from their findings on the ...

Bioengineering approaches provide unprecedented opportunities for reducing poverty, food insecurity, child malnutrition, and natural resource degradation. Genetic engineering offers outstanding ...

People in the southern lowlands of the U.S. rapidly committed to maize agriculture -- but it was another 2,000 years before the crop was widely grown at higher elevations. Kelly Swarts et al.

New research establishes the amazing diversity of maize -- specifically the variety of proteins that the plant's genes can generate. The finding has great import for agriculture, as maize is one of ...

Thoothukudi's Agriculture department provides guidelines to safeguard maize crops from fall armyworm through effective pest management strategies.

Poland's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has stated that it will not lift the indefinite ban on importing ...