Water engineers in ancient South America turned seasonally flooded Amazonian savannas into hotbeds of year-round maize farming. Previous excavations dated Casarabe society, which covered an area of ...

New research shows that mass migration of ancient peoples from the south were essential to bringing maize cultivation to Maya communities in Central America. Scientists previously thought knowledge of ...

Malawi’s maize remains the cheapest in southern Africa, averaging K963 per kilogramme (kg), yet the cost of fertiliser keeps rising, now at K3748.97 per kg (or K187 448.5 per 50kg), a new study has ...

Maize is a key crop in Nigeria and essential for food security. The new spatial simulations show that pest-related crop losses could range from 18% to 75% in the coming decades—more severe than ...

Sunshine hours at different periods between the 4 leaves and the 12-leaves stage in the Avignon and Montardon experimental sites in 2021 and 2022, respectively, and distribution of leaves orientations ...

In 1716, Cotton Mather described maize which Americans call corn and pumpkins which are also known as squash as hybrid plants. On longer evolutionary time scales, hybridisation can lead to local ...

PARIS, May 5 (Reuters) - The French parliament gave final approval on Monday to a law prohibiting the cultivation of any variety of genetically modified maize in the European Union's top grain ...

Maize breeders' and researchers from KARLO view the new maize hybrid that is resistant to the Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) viral disease that has wreaked havoc across the country. [File] Maize ...

Explore the nations that produce the bulk of the world's food, from sugarcane to maize, and understand their impact on global ...

Maize traders and farmers have stuck to their guns by refusing to sell their stock to State-owned National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) at K840 per kilogramme (kg) when parallel market prices are ...