Sentence examples for instead of maize from inspiring English sources
They may take some persuasion to eat ugali – a polenta-like dish – made from millet or cassava instead of maize.
For selected treatments, the analyses were also carried out with better-established plants (i.e. at 42 days after sowing) as well as with 21-day-old plants grown in soil from a neighboring field (from the same soil type but under permanent meadow instead of maize monocropping), because in both cases rhizobacterial community structure and taxonomic composition differed29.
The effect of dietary feeding amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus) silage (AS) instead of maize silage (MS) on the feed intake, digestibility, microbial nitrogen (N), blood parameters, milk production and N retention of the lactating Holstein cows, in third lactation (140 ± 13 days in milk) with 38.9 ± 4.7 kg milk/day, was assessed in a completely randomized design.
Only the predicted Os1bglu5 has Q instead of H142 in maize, whereas maize W465 is replaced by F in Os8bglu28, Os9bglu32 and Os9bglu33, Y in Os1bglu5 and Os9bglu31, L in Os1bglu2, Os1bglu3, Os5bglu21, Os5bglu22 and Os5bglu23, M in Os5bglu19, I in Os5bglu20 and S in Osbglu39.
Farmers, instead of growing subsidized maize and wheat at high cost, could concentrate on cash crops, like cashews and chocolate, and use the money they made to buy staple foods.
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.
These developments contrasted with higher imports by India, mostly in response to rising domestic prices, and by the Republic of Korea where tighter regional supplies of maize have instead given rise to larger imports of low grade wheat.
At one point, the Millennium Villages Project persuades the farmers in Ruhiira to grow maize instead of their traditional crop, called matoke.
Subsidies have caused Mexican farmers to stick to maize instead of switching to more profitable and labour-intensive crops, such as fruit and vegetables, Mr Serra argues.
This study reports on an evaluation of one such program - the Paddy Land-to-Dry Land (PLDL) program - that operated between 2006 and 2015 and involved an incentive payment to farmers to cultivate spring maize instead of paddy rice.
In one village his team gets farmers to grow maize instead of traditional matoke; there are no buyers for the bumper crop, and rats end up eating much of it.
