A casual look at Jane Kakuka’s maize garden, in Katerera village, Rubirizi District, tells much about how she strictly follows the proper agronomy practices to the letter. Compared to other farmers’ ...

Remote maize agronomy and crop analysis via drones could have a useful role in the future, a pioneering on-farm trial has concluded. Drones were “another tool in the tool box” for farmers, independent ...

The European Union Food Security Response in Northern Ghana Project has made significant progress in improving food and nutritional security, as well as building climate resilience among smallholder ...

The journal publishes original papers presenting new scientific results on breeding, genetics, physiology, pathology and production of primarily wheat, rye, barley, oat and maize. Publisher ...

Recently, researchers at Iowa State University discovered a way to increase the accuracy of a popular crop model. By zeroing in on early stages leading up to kernel formation, scientists believe they ...

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Farmers need to imbibe good agronomic practices to improve maize productivity and help tackle any supply gap in a staple food as important as maize. Experts, who spoke at the Third Nigeria Maize ...

The Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB) has reprimanded those responsible for producing and marketing maize products that a consumer lobby charged contains so-called Genetically Modified maize, despite a ...

The demise of oilseed rape as a break crop has left a gaping hole in many rotations, but for one East Midlands farm, grain maize enables a better use of manures as well as helping to manage blackgrass ...