Gniré and her sister Bona are bent double, working with elbow-length hoes to remove weeds to prepare for sowing maize.
In southern Spain, management of residues in the commonly-practiced maize cotton rotation is a major hurdle against adoption of CA. Recently, a minimal-cultivation, irrigated permanent bed system has been developed in which, two weeks before sowing, maize or cotton residues are relocated from the seed rows on the top of beds into the furrows.
The Dennehys, their nearest neighbors, had earlier that week sown maize, and a crow hung from a pole, strung up by a piece of twine.
Bird abundance was assessed in a typical rotation of spring-sown maize and winter wheat in three consecutive winters.
Muzaffarpur, BIHAR — On a recent spring afternoon, Susheela Devi, 50, was excitedly preparing to sow maize and okra on her one-and-a-half-acre plot.
Pausing for a rest as the first of the three recent migrant caravans passed through the Mexican town of Huixtla last week, Jesús Canan described how he used to sow maize and beans on a hectare of land near the ancient Copán ruins in western Honduras.
Nearly 3% of farmers sowed maize grain obtained in Diconsa, the public retail network, at least once during the same 5-year period, but only 0.5% of seed lots sown in 2002 came from this source.
According to ENHRUM data, between 1997 and 2001, 0.5% of Mexican rural farmers sowed maize seed brought from the US, but none of them conserved this seed in 2002 (Table 1).
In North America, conditions remained mostly favourable for the maturation and harvest of the latest sown maize crops in the United States and the output estimate has been revised up slightly since the last report to 280 million tonnes, well above the average of the past five years but still about 20 million tonnes down from last year's record.
They sow corn (maize), potatoes, onions, and cabbage in a two-season year and keep a small number of buffalo.
Each treatment received 25 kg P and 30 kg K ha−1 at sowing, while maize received 25 kg (intercrop) or 50 kg (sole) N ha−1 at 3 and 6 weeks after sowing.
