Sentence examples for tons of maize from inspiring English sources

At least a few thousand metric tons of maize have already been imported by the government, and private millers have begun importing thousands of tons after the state agreed on a subsidy plan to hold down the retail cost.

Mali, for example, boasts of having stopped importing cereal crops over the last five years and is looking to export as much as 500,000 tons of maize to its neighbours in 2015 alone.

According to food and agriculture organization (FAO) data, 589 million tons of maize was produced worldwide in the year 2000.

But it still was forced to import 500,000 tons of maize last year to make up for shortfalls in its once-bountiful agricultural sector.

There, on 16 November, she attacked the 4,915 ton British merchant ship Arlington Court, a straggler from Convoy SL-7A, en route from Rosario, Argentina to Hull with a cargo of 7,340 tons of maize.

In Real de Catorce, the Real de Catorce Mountain Cyclist Club got three high-performance bikes, and the Wixárika Regional Council and the local Livestock Association organized a project encouraging cultivation of native maize in which 14 tons of maize seed of local origin were distributed to 204 families.

The estimate for world cereal consumption in 2012/2013 has been increased to reach 2335 million tons (mainly use of maize), 5 million tons higher than reported in the first half of 2012.

Simulation results suggest an average soil loss is 30 tons for maize fields and 27 tons for cassava fields per hectare per annum under present economic conditions, which is in the range of what other studies have measured, and a consequent decline in the average household incomes by 28.5% over a 25 years period.

With nearly 850 million metric tons of global annual production, maize is the most widely grown cereal and provides essential carbohydrates to the diets of billions of people.

He went on, "We used to have a strategic reserve of maize of eight hundred thousand tons, and that was untouchable.

During the same period the production of maize in metric tons per hectare increased from 3.7 to 5.1, and total maize production increased from 482.0 to 832.5 million metric tons.