Sentence examples for farming maize from inspiring English sources
As crops withered, the inhabitants reverted from farming maize and domesticating turkeys to hunting and gathering.
Tom Phillips in Beijing; additional reporting by Luna Lin Hasifa Nakaziba, a mother of seven, has relied on farming maize and beans to support her family for years.
Many children and young adults were smaller and died earlier, Dr. Larsen said, and similar patterns occurred when an earlier American Indian population in the Midwest began farming maize.
For these livelihood zones, frequency of extreme events—especially drought, severely affects dairy farming and crop farming (maize and beans).
Persons with age greater than 35 years who had been farming maize and groundnuts in the past 20 years were more likely to perceive that mould infections had been a problem than people with age less than 35 years.
Herself an entrepreneur who runs several small businesses such as cattle farming, maize grinding and a rented guest house ("I am involved in so many businesses because each one pays only a tiny bit"), Selena made it through a convent school akin to secondary school, but regrets that her parents could not afford to help her achieve her academic dreams.
Like most Caddoans, the Wichita traditionally subsisted largely by farming corn (maize), pumpkins, and tobacco; buffalo hunting was also an important part of their economy.
Lessing was born in Tehran but grew up in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia), where she lived from 1924 to 1949 after her family settled there to farm maize.
It is prone to flooding, and each year the majority of the people who live here and who farm maize, sweet potatoes and other crops pick themselves up after their fields have been drenched, and in extreme cases, some take refuge in nearby schools for a couple of days before returning to the toiling and harvesting of their livelihoods.
These climate sensitive activities include mainly crop farming (sorghum, maize, green grams/mung beans, cowpeas, and vegetables), poultry and egg production, and aloe harvesting.
Subsistence farming of maize, rice and cassava occupies the majority of the population.
