The leaves may be utilized as green manure or forage.

the leaves are used fresh or dried as vegetables and as forage,

Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty free maize imports.

They enlarge the nest, forage for food, and care for the other eggs.

Accordingly, maize determines the political direction of the nation.

Potatoes and maize are produced in the mountain areas.

Characteristics Ankoles are able to utilize poor quality forage and limited quantities of food and water.

Announcing the new maize floor price, agriculture and livestock minister Emmanuel Chenda said

The report estimates that in the absence of trade restrictions, US subsidised maize could be marketed at less than half the price of maize grown on the Philippine island of Mindanao and that the livelihoods of up to half a million Filipino maize farmers (out of the total 1.2 million) are under immediate threat.

But if instead I start to meet a higher number of nest maintenance workers, I'm less likely to forage.

Featured image of Zambian maize by Choconancy1 on Flickr (CC BY NC SA 2.0).

Drylands include all terrestrial regions where water scarcity limits the production of crops, forage, wood and other ecosystem provisioning services.

Their reduction can be achieved through changing feed ingredients in livestock farming so as to improve the digestibility of forage.

Many people enjoy the intestines cooked in a nice gravy served over maize meal porridge.

Zambia s agriculture sector revolves around maize, never mind the growing of other crops and livestock.

They combined the phytoene synthase gene from maize with crt1 from the original golden rice.

In western Africa, maize porridge is often the first solid food given to young children.

Maize is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States, and a suburb of Wichita.

Today, the US turns 40 of its maize output into ethanol to be burned in cars.

The environment is well suited for agriculture and is considered one of the cradles of maize.

Annual maize production, the basic staple, is one third of what it was several years ago.

Some stoves use dust or residues from processed rice, maize and other crops or from sawdust.

In Sudan, IFAD has funded research into cash and forage crop varieties that are resistant to drought, salinity and poor soil conditions.

That's where the tuna wants to go it wants to forage on schools of herring but it can't get there. It's too cold.

It lives in burrows, which are often located under the bushes in which the rats forage, such as salt bushes of the family Chenopodiaceae.

To give you an example, between 2001 and 2002, Ethiopian maize farmers produced two years of bumper harvest.

Similarly, in Nairobi, Miringo Kinyanjui, another woman entrepreneur, is supplying unrefined and more nutritious maize and wheat flour.

New drought tolerant maize varieties, for example, are already benefiting more than two million smallholder farmers in Africa.

Grits is a porridge of native American origin made from corn (maize) which is popular in the South.

The regional action programme for desertification control has identified networked activities aimed both at the management of rangelands and at the development of forage crops.

The main subsistence crops are manioc, millet, sorghum, maize, potatoes, taros, plantains, yams, peanuts, rice, marrow, pulses and sesame.

By 2030, if the maize, or corn, varieties, which is the dominant crop 50 percent of the nutrition in Southern Africa are still in the field in 2030, we'll have a 30 percent decrease in production of maize because of the climate change already in 2030.

Besides commercial fertilizers and food waste, biogas plants increasingly process energy crops such as cereals, maize (whole plants) and grass.

That in turn, because of the weak marketing system, led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.

Oil pressed from rapeseed can be used as diesel fuel, and maize or sugar beets can yield ethanol to replace gasoline.

The United States generously subsidizes production of ethanol from maize, with output there currently growing 12 annually and almost 10 worldwide.

Only 7 of global rice production is traded internationally, while only 18 of wheat production and 13 of maize is exported.

They developed agriculture as well, growing maize and other crops unique to the Americas, and creating a distinct culture and religion.

The researchers spoke to a trader in Hoima who said he bought around 500 tons of maize and beans from the refugee farmers last year some 60 percent of his stock. He sold the maize on to other parts of Uganda, but also further afield, to Tanzania and South Sudan.

This is why subsequent governments have kept a keen eye on the growing, harvesting, buying and selling of maize meal to consumers.

In 1986, Zambians in the Copperbelt and Lusaka regions rioted because the price of maize increased several fold when incomes were stagnant.

A few days before the minister s statement, the FRA had destroyed huge stocks of rotten maize in various districts of the country.

And scientists have begun to understand how spatial memory works by recording from individual neurons in rats or mice while they forage or explore an environment looking for food.

This is why Indonesia, one of the world s largest producers of rice and maize, recently decided to reduce trade barriers to agriculture imports.

Despite such calls, the Ministry of Agriculture announced this year s floor price of maize at K65,000 (about 13 USD) per 50 kilo bag.