Sentence examples for bag of maize from inspiring English sources
Before the drought he could sell a camel for £185; now the barter price has diminished to one bag of maize.
A bag of maize meal weighing 25 kilograms, about 55 pounds, for example, lasts the average Zambian family about three weeks.
In Somalia the price of the cereal red sorghum has risen by 240% in the last year, and a 90kg bag of maize is bartered for five goats now instead of one.
When she first started to work with rape victims in 1998, she found that perpetrators would pay for their crime by handing over a goat or a bag of maize to the girl's parents.
Ms Nonyane holds a plastic bag of maize meal, cooking oil and sugar, given to her by the party, but she is cynical about their motives.
Alinafe's mother, Mumderanji laments the loss of a 50 kilogram bag of maize to the floods.
The Kenya Cereal Growers Associationn says production will slump from 34m bags of maize to 24m.
Anyone caught moving more than a couple of bags of maize is liable to be arrested.Will anything change?
"I can't believe that the piece of land that used to give me eight bags of maize three years ago is now producing up to 25 bags," he says.
This year, the rains were bad and they harvested just 50 bags of maize instead of the 100 they hoped for, and cropped only four bales of Burley tobacco.
In the poor district of Mbare, about 3km (two miles or so) from Harare's centre, a few people are selling cooking oil and sugar at the side of the road; some carry bags of maize flour on their heads.
