Sentence examples for crop maize from inspiring English sources

The treatments were repeated for six cropping seasons (years), and data on soil nutrient status and crop (maize, wheat, potato, and faba bean) harvests were collected.

Yet Malawian farmers are growing only one crop: maize.

The cropping systems were single crop maize, single crop cowpea, intercropped maize cowpea and single crop maize with manure.

Previously a marginal garden crop, maize became intensely cultivated close to homesteads, with correspondingly high levels of pollen.

Many African and western countries have encouraged farmers to grow and eat a single staple crop, maize, which is not suited to drought or to warmer temperatures.

Add to that a lack of irrigation; overdependence on a single crop, maize; shrinking fish stocks; vanishing forests; and land degradation.

Numerous initiatives are encouraging a switch from single-crop maize to drought-resistant and nutritious sorghum and millet, intercropped with legumes.

Whole-crop maize silage as forage in diets of finishing cattle can promote high intakes and thus, enhances animal performance.

In the present study we evaluated the effect of whole-crop maize maturity at harvest and the proportion of maize-silage in diets of finishing bulls, on feed intake and performance.

Global food security depends on trade in just four crops: maize, wheat, rice and soybeans.

Both of Africa's staple crops, maize and sorghum, are expected to be badly hit by increasing severity of weather.