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Discover LudwigThe word 'maize' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to a type of corn with large kernels that is used primarily as a food crop and also for animal feed. It can be used in a variety of contexts, including scientific research papers, farming and agricultural articles, and recipes. Example: The farmers harvested the golden maize from the field and loaded it onto trucks to be transported to the processing plant.
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maize
noun
Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
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Last year, Tanzania's farmers produced one of the biggest maize crops the country has ever seen.
A few studies led by an Italian scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini have reported health risks from GM food and animal feed, notably one in 2012 linking a herbicide-tolerant maize to tumours and early death in rats.
The income she generated from selling maize was never enough to feed a family of five and they often went for days without food.
Folks don't realise how bad the situation here is Margee Ensign Monica, a farmer from the district of Madagali who can't stop thinking of the five bags of beans and 13 bags of maize she left behind when she fled with her eight children, stays in a windowless house set in a warren of sandy alleys.
One night while he was slashing through maize with a machete somewhere in the east of England, Lynas saw flashing lights and heard the barking of dogs.
This man, Musa Ali, once had 15 acres on which he grew mangoes, beans and maize.
Like many victims, the wounds are such that he's supposed to restrict his diet to soft foods such as bananas, which are expensive, and Jean Paul can only afford maize and millet.
In contrast, in Europe there is only one GM crop approved for commercial cultivation, a Bt-insect-resistant maize.
Mali, for example, boasts of having stopped importing cereal crops over the last five years and is looking to export as much as 500,000 tons of maize to its neighbours in 2015 alone.
"They were throwing grenades like maize to chickens," said the software engineer.
The traditional diet of maize and beans in Central America has seen extensive amounts of land dedicated to these two crops.
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