Sentence examples for maize farming from inspiring English sources

These were average size of land under maize; farming experience; household size; household members involved in farming; education level; age; main occupation and gender of the household head.

Now a new study suggests that a much humbler llama byproduct dung may have helped maize farming take off, which in turn fueled the rise of ancient Andean society.

…farming, animal rearing, bee farming, planting and taking care of trees, farming maize, farming pepper etc.

(Religious healer, male, 33, urban) …farming, animal rearing, bee farming, planting and taking care of trees, farming maize, farming pepper etc.

An accompanying case study, on maize farming in Mexico, illustrates the difficulties.

Gumbi had been hit particularly hard by the drought, he said, because everyone was desperately poor and no one had skills other than maize farming.

David Steward, the study's lead author, says that over the past 30 years the productivity of maize (corn) farming in irrigated Kansas peaked at 12 tonnes per hectare, against four tonnes on drylands.

They now raise sugarcane and other cash crops irrigated by the dam to supplement their traditional wheat and corn (maize) subsistence farming.

They chased the men to a field near a maize farm.

The boy's mutilated torso was discovered in a maize farm and his head 500 yards away at a river bank, the police said.

Only in the last few years has it been officially admitted that the proliferation of this primitive form of weed has been caused by nitrogen pouring into streams and rivers and then the sea, from the scores of intensive pig and cattle and maize farms in the heart of the Breton peninsula.