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Researchers were astounded that Menominee could grow so much in a cold climate with a relatively short growing season.
With the government’s impetus on saving groundwater, the area under water guzzling summer maize fell by over 32% in 2024 compared to 2023, as per the data collected by Punjab Agricultural ...
Maize, a little-known crop three decades ago, continues its triumph over wheat, paddy and other crops due to its higher yield and profitability.
Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers Engineered waterways helped Casarabe people turn savannas into year-round crop fields ...
By reconstructing the genomes of archaeological maize cobs and kernels, the study, by researchers at the University of York and the University of Copenhagen, revealed that 1,000-year-old maize ...
Researchers tested ancient maize DNA from Arkansas, linking 1,000-year-old samples to modern Northern Flint varieties. The study highlights farmers’ early trait selection and the crop’s journey from ...
A study published in Cell uncovers the deep evolutionary roots of flint and dent maize (also commonly known as "corn"), two foundational varieties central to modern maize breeding and cultivation.
ANKAPUR / NIZAMABAD: With corn cobs flooding the market and weather turning pleasant, people in north Telangana are lining up to enjoy roasted cobs or their boiled kernels.
For more than a year maize prices in Kenya and Malawi have been much higher compared with other countries in the east and southern Africa (ESA) region. Several factors explain this. In Malawi ...
We are in the midst of the maize season, which should provide us with sumptuous and nutritious pots of mushroom soup every day, if only we weren’t careless and inwardly indolent, wasting the ...