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Maize in sentence

86 examples of Maize in a sentence

I don't say let's go back to the Copper Canyons and live on corn and maize, which is the Tarahumara's preferred diet, but maybe there's somewhere in between.
If you include not just the food that ends up in shops and restaurants, but also the food that people feed to livestock, the maize, the soy, the wheat, that humans could eat but choose to fatten livestock instead to produce increasing amounts of meat and dairy products, what you find is that most rich countries have between three and four times the amount of food that their population needs to feed itself.
The next three biscuits are the foods that we decide to feed to livestock, the maize, the wheat and the soya.
The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize.
In Ethiopia, for example, the variation in maize prices from year to year is as much as 50 percent annually.
To give you an example, between 2001 and 2002, Ethiopian maize farmers produced two years of bumper harvest.
That in turn, because of the weak marketing system, led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.
Ethiopia's agricultural market is 30 percent higher than South Africa's grain production, and, in fact, Ethiopia is the second largest maize producer in Africa.
The goro goro is a cup used to measure two kilograms of maize flower on the market, and the maize flower is used to make ugali, a polenta-like cake that is eaten together with vegetables.
Both the maize and the vegetables are grown on most Kenyan farms, which means that most families can feed themselves from their own farm.
For example, for maize at planting, you need to have two days of rain for farmers to plant, and then it needs to rain once every two weeks for the crop to properly germinate.
Wheat, rice and maize form 95 percent of our plant food supplies.
All of the crops that we eat today, wheat, rice and maize, are highly genetically modified from their ancestors, but we don't consider them GM because they're being produced by conventional breeding.
So here's some data from a maize strain that's very popularly used in Africa.
And I'm going to illustrate this very crudely for maize, where the chromosomes below the off switch represent all the genes that are required for desiccation tolerance.
So as maize seeds dried out at the end of their period of development, they switch these genes on.
This is the areas that we will rely on most for rice and maize and corn.
Chak Ek’s third victim was the god of maize, who provided sustenance for all humankind.
But the maize god emerged after three months in the place of new beginnings– the eastern cave known as Seven Water Place– bringing food once again to earth.
A new race of humans was created, made from maize.
The gods, the lords, and the maize were buried in the underworld.
It's two breeding cycles for maize.
Like everyone else, we grew maize.
Walker wanders around a corn maze (maize?
For the same reasons, these regions fail to diversify their food staples to include safer crops such as millet, maize, or beans.
The United States generously subsidizes production of ethanol from maize, with output there currently growing 12% annually and almost 10% worldwide.
The price of maize, half of which is imported from the US, more than doubled in a year, primarily because of production of bio-ethanol.
Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state-administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty-free maize imports.
The substitution of forests by maize, rape, and other oilseed cultivation reduces the stock of biomass and likewise leads to an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Ships laden with tens of thousands of tons of maize, sorghum, split peas, and cooking oil from the United Nations World Food Program and other international aid organizations must navigate these dangerous waters.
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