Sentence examples for harvesting maize from inspiring English sources

After harvesting, maize fields tend to be left bare until the following spring, without the dense stubble that helps to protect the soil after other cereal crops have been cut.

During the rainy season they also assist with planting and harvesting maize significantly improving food security in her household.

Staple foods were maize and cassava, and the busiest periods for farming activities were August to October for preparing fields, and April for harvesting maize.

In addition, food scarcity may promote improper farming practices such as harvesting maize while wet to ensure it would not be stolen (Azziz-Baumgartner et al. 2005), thus increasing the opportunity for fungal growth and aflatoxin contamination.

Eventually, the island ran out of food, and they moved to another one, to harvest maize.

In common with other boys, he also helps his father to weed and harvest maize and tobacco in the fields.

The optimum stage of maturity to harvest maize silage for feeding to dairy cows is approximately 300 g/kg.

The children were recruited during maize harvest season when newly harvested maize was consumed, and they were followed-up twice: after 6 months, during the season when stored maize was consumed, and after 12 months, which was another harvest season for maize.

For example, Calcagno et al. (2010) explore evidence for genetically based changes in pupation behaviour of European corn borers (Ostrina spp). in response to harvesting of maize.

This is in contrast to Gobin [16], who found that the number of water-logged days at the time of planting for summer crops as well as for the harvesting of maize declined from 1947 to 2008 in Belgium.

However, Roth and Fox [25] reported that the residue of soil nitrate ranged from 41 to 138 kg N/ha in 0 120 cm after harvesting a maize crop which was fertilized by economic N rate.