We would have to work so hard, but receive little.” Indigenous communities around the world are losing the crops their ...

and the cob comes out whole. In 2013, the hand maize sheller was calibrated by the Ministry of Agriculture, whose tests revealed the maize sheller had 99.9 per cent non-breakage of the seeds.

It’s well established that maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild Mexican grass. But the route of corn’s spread into what is now the southwestern United States has been more murky: ...

German pharmaceutical, biotechnology and crop science company Bayer AG has opened a new maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia. Bayer has invested around $35m in the new facility, which will triple ...

The DKC 90-89 also capable of producing two cobs per stem which is knonw as ... Monsato Company was introducing the new varieties of maize seeds for high altitude areas to ensure that the farmers ...

Farai Shawn Matiashe/Thomson Reuters Foundation “I sowed again in early January 2025 after struggling to get the seeds ... maize plants at their growing points and burrow into the cobs.

Neil advises using a pre-emergence herbicide after drilling maize to create a clean seed-bed. Once the plants have eight to 10 leaves, the crop can be undersown with grass using a specialist drill.

KABWE, ZAMBIA — Bayer AG has opened a €32 million ($34.5 million) maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia, that will supply 6.4 million Sub-Saharan African smallholders with high-yielding maize seeds in ...