Today, the number of maize plants cultivated is enormous given the ubiquity of this crop in processed food, livestock production, and a range of other industries (see Jahren and Kraft 2008).
The cereals most commonly cultivated are wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn (maize), and sorghum.
Statistics show that 86percentt of the maize cultivated in South Africa is GM.
Their main diet was corn (maize), cultivated by the Pocomtuc women, and fish and game.
They depended largely on corn (maize), cultivated by women, for their subsistence; this was supplemented by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plant foods.
Maize pollen concentrations are significantly positively correlated with the area of maize cultivated within 200 m of the sample location and negatively correlated with the distance to the nearest maize field and the thickness of vegetative buffers around the lake.
Despite repeated studies finding no risk to human health from the consumption of GMOs, just one such crop (a form of maize) is cultivated in the EU, and in only a handful of countries.
In the state of Sonora, Mexico, maize is cultivated from 0 to 2100 masl with diverse cultivation practices.
He described how a commitment to results is paying off in Mali, where a woman-owned company called Faso Kaba - which means "home country maize" - is cultivating change by helping farmers grow their yields and incomes through better quality seed.
In India, for example, maize is cultivated both during the rainy season (from April to October) and in the Spring (from mid-November to April/May).
