Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activitiesmostly rain-fed crop farmingrecurring droughts are devastating to the country. We lost our entire maize crop.

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Crop Maize Food Grain 76

Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

There’s a rich oral history of African rice in Maroon communities, but that doesn’t mean either the traditional knowledge or diversity of the crop is safe. The Invisible Tropical Tuber Crop: Edible Aroids (Araceae) Sold as Tajer in the Netherlands. The sedimentary record can be used to recover traditional knowledge too.

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Agriculture Agriculture Plantation Maize 178

Agri-tech

JANUARY 14, 2025

CIMMYT is a cutting edge, non-profit, international organization dedicated to fostering improved quantity, quality, and dependability of production systems and basic cereals such as maize, wheat, triticale, sorghum, millets, and associated crops.

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Maize Crop Production 133

Agric4profits

JULY 11, 2024

Maize, also known as corn is one of the most useful cereal crop in West Africa, foods made out of maize is very nutritious as it is an important source of Carbo

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Maize Cultivation Crop Food 111

Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 22, 2023

A New Methodological Approach to Detect Microcenters and Regions of Maize Genetic Diversity in Different Areas of Lowland South America. Multiple disciplines identify 4 microcenters of maize diversity in the lowlands of South America. Historical Routes for Diversification of Domesticated Chickpea Inferred from Landrace Genomics.

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Maize Cultivation Distribution Crop 203

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Maize and precolonial Africa. Maize contributed to slavery. Conventional breeding of Pacific Island staple crops: A paradox. Seeds of knowledge: paving the way to integrated historical and conservation science research. Conserving the genetic diversity of domesticated species needs to combine history and science. History indeed.

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Agroecology Maize Seeding Science 203

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Farmers Weekly We started chopping the maize in the last week of September and finished in four days. The crop averaged just over 50t/ha at an average DM of 31.5%. It was a huge crop and one I never thought we could grow. A superb effort by James Bell and his team.

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Maize Crop 264

Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Farmers Weekly Fears for next year’s UK maize crop disaster averted as the government agrees to new seed dressing licenses. Are your cows ready to go digital? Are you ready to take up your passports? Defra launches the Digital Cattle Movement System consultation.

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Maize Seeding Cattle Crop 130

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 27, 2023

Diversify markets, production, crops and technology to de-risk agrifood systems. Maize varietal replacement in Eastern and Southern Africa: Bottlenecks, drivers and strategies for improvement. Seed companies need to be more proactive… Why farmers use so many different maize varieties in West Kenya?

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Maize Seeding Food Technology 189

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Farmers Weekly Cereals and oilseeds, as well as precision-planted crops such as maize, can be established using a choice of seeding units for Kuhn’s latest folding power harrow, the 4.5m HR 4530 RCS. Both are mounted on the harrow’s packer roller to allow for different cultivating depths and have hydraulically adjustable sowing depth.

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Seeding Maize Cultivation Crop 246

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Maybe he’d like to have a look at the the Crop Trust’s endowment fund for SDG 2.5 ? Those farming project don’t have to involve orphan crops , but it wouldn’t hurt. They would help with malnutrition where maize biofortification hasn’t worked so well, for example. Jeffrey Sachs and co-authors.

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Maize Livestock Food Crop 218

Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Zea Mays is the botanical name of maize also known as corn or sweet corn. It is an annual crop that produces white, yellow, or bi-colored seeds or kernels.

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Maize Seeding Production Crop 111

Agric4profits

MAY 23, 2024

The Maize/Corn Ovary is a critical component of the female reproductive structure in maize, scientifically known as Zea mays. As part of the pistil, the ovary p

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Maize Production Crop 104

Agric4profits

MAY 23, 2024

The Maize/Corn Roots system is divided into several types based on their origin and function. Primarily, maize roots can be categorized into seminal roots, noda

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Maize Production Crop 103

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly We are currently drawing to the end of the maize; it will be a welcome end to this year’s harvest. Then we can fully focus on next year’s crops. Maize yields have varied, and it has taught us lessons for the future.

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Maize Yield Harvesting Harvest 181

Agric4profits

MAY 23, 2024

Maize/Corn Internodes play a crucial role in the plant's structure and growth. Internodes are the segments of the stem located between the nodes, where leaves a

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Maize Production Crop 104

Agric4profits

MAY 24, 2024

The Maize/Corn Stigma is a small, sticky structure that protrudes from the tip of the silk, which is part of the female inflorescence, or ear. Its sticky surfac

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Maize Production Crop 104

Food Politics

JULY 12, 2024

This is because “corporate controlled global food chains offer a flawed recipe for food security, and are full of risks and vulnerabilities: the exposure of industrial commodity production to climate shocks; the diversion of valuable resources into ultraprocessed foods, livestock feed, and fuel; the standardization of diets around wheat, rice, and (..)

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Food Supply Chain Maize Marketing 264

Agric4profits

MAY 23, 2024

The Maize/Corn Shoots originates from the seed during germination. As the seed absorbs water, it swells, and the embryonic shoot, called the plumule, begins to

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Maize Seeding Production Crop 102

ATTRA

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Corn earworm larvae cause significant crop loss in corn, but both a genetically engineered corn and a conventionally bred corn high in flavanoids caused corn earworm larvae to grow much more slowly, with many of them dying.

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Crop Maize Production 52

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Farmers Weekly Farmers across much of the country have been counting the cost of Storm Babet, with images of damaged infrastructure and unharvested maize and vegetable crops submerged in flood water suggesting it will be significant.

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Maize Farmland Acre Crop 198

Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 26, 2024

More on the US push for opportunity crops. Oh look there’s a whole compendium on African opportunity crops from FAO. For the Hopi, maize is an opportunity crop. Many of them are roots and tubers. For the Adivasis, it’s rice. And more along the same lines from Odisha. …and still are , for some.

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Maize Cattle Food Crop 203

Agric4profits

MAY 24, 2024

The Maize/Corn Pedicels is the stalk that attaches each kernel to the cob, playing a vital role in nutrient transport and kernel development. The pedicel of

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Maize Production Crop 93

Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 23, 2024

Bottom line: more crops better. Anthropocene Magazine has a handy summary of recent research into crop diversity on the North China Plain. Bottom line: adding more crops to the current dominant rotation of wheat and maize increases yields and profits, sequesters more carbon in the soil and reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenhouse Cash Crop Maize Crop 221

Agric4profits

MAY 24, 2024

The Maize/Corn Peduncle is the stalk that supports the ear of corn, emerging from a leaf axil on the main stem. It bears the weight of the developing ear, which

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Maize Production Crop 90

Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Public–private partnerships and genetically modified crop development for smallholder farmers in Africa. Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms. Efforts to improve crop adaptation and resilience to climate change need to take gender into account if they are to work.

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Maize Crop Food Agriculture 203

Agric4profits

MAY 24, 2024

Maize/Corn Anthers are elongated structures that typically measure between 3 to 5 millimeters in length. They are located on the tassel, the male inflorescence of the maize

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Maize Production Crop 80

Agric4profits

MAY 22, 2024

Maize/Corn Leaves are characterized by their elongated shape and parallel venation. They arise alternately along the stem and typically have a sheath that parti

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Maize Production Crop 87

Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason.

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Seeding Crop Food Maize 203

Agric4profits

MAY 24, 2024

The Maize/Corn Styles is a slender, elongated structure that emerges from the ovary, connecting it to the stigma, which is the receptive surface for pollen grai

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Maize Production Crop 80

Food Tank

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is working across the globe to help farmers access the information and resources they need to future-proof their farms. CIMMYT also helps them access seeds to grow crops that are more resistant to droughts and pests. He points to the recent U.N.

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Maize Farming Farming Food 52

Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year was a pretty hot and dry year, but still, some of the crops I raised did pretty well, he says with a satisfied smile. Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation.

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop 139

Agric4profits

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Maize, or corn, is a staple crop with immense global importance, feeding millions and contributing significantly to agricultural economies. Known scientifically

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Maize Production Crop Agriculture 59

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 144

Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Subsistence farmers primarily cultivate staple crops such as maize, rice, and beans, along with vegetables and livestock, to support their households.

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Maize Cultivation Livestock Crop 105

Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 24, 2024

I wonder if any of those new accessions are “ opportunity crops.” Which is not to say working on staples like maize isn’t cool. There’s an opportunity to help the Land Institute with its research on perennial crops. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences genebank fills some gaps. Just ask CAAS.

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Seeding Maize Crop Science 100

Agric4profits

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Shifting cultivation is a cropping system whereby a piece of farmland under forest is opened up and used for cropping (usually arable crop such as yam, maize,

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Cultivation Maize Farmland Crop 105