Sentence examples for maize production from inspiring English sources

Maize production was badly hit on several occasions.

A drought during the 2001-02 sawson saw maize production fall by 34%.

"Due to urbanisation in Nigeria, 17% of rice production and 12% of maize production will be hampered," Creutzig says.

Maize production will be a near-record 10 billion bushels (254m tonnes).

The scientists found that global wheat production was 33m tonnes (5.5%) lower than it would have been without warming, and maize production was 23m tonnes (3.8%) lower.

As they age, plantations become better for biodiversity," Ewers says, especially in comparison with a landscape of intensive soy or maize production in Brazil.

Around 40 per cent of maize production would be lost if there was a repeat of the 1930s drought today.

A report from the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), released in March found climate change is already cutting into the global food supply and could lead to dramatic drops in global wheat and maize production.

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre predicts that climate change will reduce maize production globally by up to 10% by 2050 and wheat production in developing countries by more than 30%.

The Potsdam study reports that since the 1980s, maize production is 3.8% lower than it would have been without climate change, and wheat is down 5.5%.

If maize production had risen as much as claimed, Malawians should have have had a surplus of maize and prices should have dropped.