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Stop maize monoculture, and reestablish multiple cropping, to combat the loss of landscape and soil diversity.
France has banned a strain of genetically modified maize.
A shortage of animal feed is also looming after damage to maize crops and grass.
Other products include coal, coconuts, sugar cane, pineapples, tobacco, vegetables, sago, tapioca, coffee, tea, maize, and groundnuts.
Maize is used to make a popular, thick porridge called sadza, made of corn meal and served with relish.
"The business is very expensive," she told VOA one recent morning, as she churned a large pot of maize porridge, stopping to wipe sweat off her brow.
Jelle Van Loon, of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, demonstrates a prototype hand planter.
"We know it took place over three days sometime between mid-September and early November in 1621, and was considered a harvest celebration following a successful planting of multicolored flint corn, or maize," says Sheehan.
Among the food crops that can be made into fuels are: maize, palm trees, sugarcane, beetroot, wheat, groundnuts, pumpkin, sesame and cotton seeds, and the woody shrub called jatropha.
In India maize is a summer crop, ripening in the autumn, when the ears or cobs are picked off the stalks.
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But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne.
A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.
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