Sentence examples for their maize from inspiring English sources
In those bad days, Gumbi's "nkhokwe", the traditional woven granaries in which families stored their maize, were all empty.
A group of these farmers had suggested that the WFP purchase their maize, but the idea hasn't been taken up.
Much of their maize crop looks similar to that seen along the main roads.
Kilimo Salama is an SFSA-led scheme whereby farmers can insure their maize, beans, sorghum and wheat crops against unpredictable rainfall.
To cite just one example from Brazil, thousands of hill farmers using mulch to cover crops made up of legumes and grasses saw their maize yields jump from 3 to 5 tonnes per hectare without using chemical fertiliser.
It was mid-afternoon when a huge boom of thunder startled the Ramírez family as they tended their maize crops in the tiny mountainous community of El Encinal, in Mexico's central state of Guanajuato.
After reaching out to the band to see if they would answer our culinary questions regarding their maize-y moniker, they politely told us to fuck off.
We sat with subsistence farmers and heard about their struggles to make ends meet because their maize-drying machine had just broken; we visited with teachers and mothers who rigorously prepare the school meals each day for their kids and experienced how hot and smoky their unventilated kitchens were; and we sat in very primitive classrooms with kids in clean uniforms who were eager to learn.
Most notably, MaizeSequence.org, Gramene (which removed their maize-centric genome browser when MaizeSequence.org was released), PlantGDB with its maize ZmGDB browser and the Maize Assembled Gene Islands (MAGI) resource.
But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop.
PEASANTS are bulking out their pathetic maize rations with sawdust and grass.
