Sentence examples for largest maize from inspiring English sources

The drought is believed to be caused by the El Nino weather pattern which has also brought drought to neighbouring South Africa - the region's largest maize grower.

America is easily the world's largest maize exporter and it now uses more of its maize crop for ethanol than it sells abroad.Ethanol is the dominant reason for this year's increase in grain prices.

The United States was the largest maize producer having 43 % of world production.

As can be seen in Figure 4, the areas with the largest maize production coincide with areas where only little wheat is grown and where feed for livestock is in high demand.

As of 2012, like most years before, Lower Saxony (LS) constituted Germany's largest maize producer, accounting for more than a quarter of the 94.56 Mt total German production, while extending over merely 13% of Germany's overall territory.

Within just two years, Malawi produced its largest maize crop ever and began exporting its surplus to its food-insecure neighbors.

China, as one of the golden maize belts in the world, is the second largest maize-producing country, with a total growing area of 3.05 × 107 ha recorded in 2009 [8], which was mainly concentrated in North, Northeast, and Southwest China [26].

It is also bigger than the notoriously large maize genome, although only half the size of the enormous genome of the Norway Spruce, Picea abies.

In the large maize and tomato genomes, we observed extensive chromatin loops.

Hence, larger maize areas tend to be associated with the lower shares of protected areas and, interestingly, with smaller arable area sizes.

But in the much larger maize genome, 95 NB-LRR encoding genes have up to now been identified [ 33].