This year's drought-affected grain maize crop in France will produce about 10 million tonnes, growers group AGPM said on Wednesday, joining other observers in predicting the worst harvest in decades.

The price of maize last week hit a record US$8.16 per bushel ($321 per tonne), and traders think that prices could rise above $9 per bushel by early August unless there is a significant change in ...

Enhanced, Drought-tolerant Maize To Give African Farmers Options, Even With Global Warming Date: January 30, 2007 Source: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ...

Kenya is set to import its first genetically modified maize, the trade cabinet secretary has said, as the government seeks to ease food shortages caused by the country's worst drought in 40 years.

In theory, drought-tolerant varieties could fill the gap left in maize supplies in recent years as stocks have been diverted for ethanol production. But not everybody is convinced that these crops ...

Roots are a key to drought-tolerant maize. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 05 / 240522130328.htm. University of Bonn.

New experimental hybrid maize on display at a maize field in Harare, Zimbabwe, Oct. 24, 2016. Scientists in Zimbabwe say they have developed new heat- and drought-tolerant varieties of maize that ...

Malawi's maize output declined by 18.9% in the 2021/22 farming year due to a combination of factors like drought, tropical cyclones and inadequate supply of subsidized fertilizer, the agriculture ...

WEBVTT AN ANNUAL FALL TRADITION IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN LOS RANCHOS. THE RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY FARM'S, MAIZE MAZE GOT OFF TO A BIT OF A ROUGH START THIS YEAR, THANKS TO DROUGHT CONDITIONS; BUT ...

Maize can grow successfully in very different local conditions. An international study headed by the University of Bonn has now demonstrated the important role of the plant root system. The ...

As drought destroys maize, ... For more than 20 years, Dalarex Ncube grew maize in arid Jambezi District, one of Zimbabwe's driest regions, and his family ate maize porridge, ...

The maize varieties—officially tagged WE 1101, WE 31013, WE 3106 and WE 3109 or known as Drought TEGO—are available for production to farmers and marketing by seed companies. Also Read PRIME ...