The available survey documentation notes that, in general, one serving of vegetables was considered to be one cup of raw green leafy vegetables such as spinach or salad; one-half cup of other vegetables cooked or chopped raw, such as tomatoes, carrots, pumpkin, maize, Chinese cabbage, fresh beans or onions; or one-half cup of vegetable juice.
She says they used to grow pumpkins, maize and other vegetables but the drought has meant that no farming can be done in the area.
Yamba now holds title deeds to a six-acre plot of good land, where she grows pumpkins and maize.
He offered to make me a guest of the family's for the night, so I stayed, met the family, had tours of the town and walked through farms planted with – coffee, kasava, matoke, bananas, wild bananas, maize, pumpkin, cabbage, tomatoes.
Vegetable crops now included potatoes, carrots, maize, pumpkin, taro, watermelon – even grapes, passionfruit and coffee.
Previously, three CAT genes have been found present in the angiosperm species tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L ., Arabidopsis, maize, pumpkin (Cucurbita sp).
Small and medium scale Chinese investors from across the border with family and/or pre-existing social ties initially encouraged and financed local farmers to plant cash-crops in northern Laos (i.e., watermelon, chilies, pumpkin, rice, sugarcane, maize, cassava, rubber etc).
Palm oil and kernels, yams, cassava (manioc), corn (maize), pumpkins, cotton, and kola nuts are collected for the local market.
The government has encouraged increased production of staple vegetables, such as peas, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and corn (maize).
Before the voyages of Columbus, there were no tomatoes, chillies, potatoes, beans except for broad beans, pumpkins, courgettes or maize, though maize caught on rapidly.
By her front door is a vegetable patch where she grows enough maize, pumpkins, spinach, bananas, guavas and paw-paw to feed them all.
