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  • Beware of Uncertified Seed 23 Nov 2009 07:13 GMT
    ... Harare — AS preparations for the 2009/10 farming season gather momentum, con artists have offloaded ... gather momentum, con artists have offloaded uncertified maize seed onto the market and unsuspecting farmers ... total harvest failure in the past after planting fake seed. The jail term imposed on ...

  • Researchers Sequence the Maize (Corn) Genome 23 Nov 2009 10:19 GMT
    ... completion of a high-quality sequence of the maize (corn) genome was in the cover story ... efficiencies in nitrogen use that would enable farmers to reduce applications of costly, polluting fertilizers, ... NSF under the auspices of the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI). The NPGI, which began ...

  • Kenya harvest example on reversing food shortage 23 Nov 2009 05:50 GMT
    ... are able to get year-round work as farm laborers or earn money from their once-neglected rice ... the rice fields, even though she grows maize and arrow roots on her own small ... control, telling farmers when and what to plant, providing them with seeds and fertilizers on ...

  • FRA - Helping Farmers to Have Succesful Marketing Seasons 23 Nov 2009 07:46 GMT
    ... recent years." This is how one small-scale farmer in Mbala District in Northern Province described ... Despite the announcement of the ceiling for maize price pegged at K65,000 for a 50 ... in Nakonde said the Government's policies on agriculture had helped small-scale farmers in remote areas ...

  • Govt forms task force to woo investment in maize sector 23 Nov 2009 01:32 GMT
    ... promote major investments in Bihar in the maize sector, a public-private initiative has been taken ... and Poultry Task Force (MPTF) under Bihar Agricultural Competitiveness Partnership (ACP). Director, agriculture, B Rajendra, ... and other places interacted with 50 Bihari farmers at the Bihar Industries Association (BIA) meet ...

  • New Map of Variation in Maize Genetics Holds Promise for Developing New Varieties 23 Nov 2009 10:30 GMT
    ... New Map of Variation in Maize Genetics Holds Promise for Developing New Varieties A ... Genomic Diversity and an adjunct professor of plant breeding and genetics. Michael Gore, a graduate ... are affiliated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Cold Spring Harbor ...

  • Purdue researchers identify maize cell wall genes, can boost biofuel production 23 Nov 2009 10:14 GMT
    ... Purdue researchers identify maize cell wall genes, can boost biofuel production Researchers at Purdue University have identified and ... of individual genes and how they affect plant development. The research team was mostly interested in ...

  • Syngenta GM maize fails to get EU ministers' backing 23 Nov 2009 10:03 GMT
    ... Syngenta GM maize fails to get EU ministers' backing BRUSSELS- EU farm ministers failed on Friday to agree whether to ... Commission has approved a number of GM products in this way. This summer, more than ...

  • Scientists map the maize genome 23 Nov 2009 01:33 GMT
    ... have broken the entire genetic code of maize, in a discovery that could lead to corn and other plant varieties becoming more resistant to climate change ... one of the biggest breakthroughs by US Agriculture Department and academic researchers here in years. ...

  • Elephants Destroy Crops in Amuru 23 Nov 2009 08:32 GMT
    ... Okullo, said on Thursday. Okullo also said the elephants and some buffalos have destroyed crops, especially rice, beans, cassava, millet, sorghum and maize, leaving the affected residents at the risk of famine. One resident, Vincent Laridat, said the ...

  • El Nino intensifies Latin America drought 23 Nov 2009 05:10 GMT
    ... of drought, which provoked a reduction... in agricultural production, affecting around 2.5 million people," said ... and 80 percent of key crops, including maize and rice in the heart of Venezuela's ... were destroyed in the south, authorities said. Farmers in Bolivia complained of going eight months ...

  • Country Wins Praise Over Food Security 23 Nov 2009 10:00 GMT
    ... per cent of its budgetary allocations to agriculture as part of its ambitious green revolution ... ambitious green revolution programme that has increased farmers' access to quality seed and fertilisers. This ... net importer to a net exporter of maize over the past four years and fuelled ...

  • Soaring food prices pinch 23 Nov 2009 06:52 GMT
    ... Tandale market said that the price of maize has also gone up. Currently a 100-kg ... lot on transporting food products from the farms and paying government revenues, we are compelled ... low harvests and high cost of transportation. Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives deputy minister, Dr. ...

  • Corn genome sequenced, to usher in new varieties 23 Nov 2009 09:16 GMT
    ... U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have completed ... results represent the largest and most complex plant genome sequenced to date, and are the ... hybrid vigor. Corn, known among scientists as maize, is one of world’s most important crops. ...

  • Where the Skies Have Refused to Open 23 Nov 2009 08:32 GMT
    ... food for children is milk and ugali (maize meal), only the lucky few are fed ... been helped by the fact that wheat farms in the area recorded the poorest yields in ... inputs like fertilizers, farmers are reluctant to plant. wondering whether it will really rain. Mr ...


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