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The result is a grain yield (for example, maize) that is roughly one-third less than what could be achieved with better farm inputs.
And the office of the prime minister donated land so CIYOTA could cultivate bananas, maize, and other produce to feed students and generate income.
For example, experts might estimate with 90% confidence, based on available data and their own experience, that farmers’ average maize yields in a given region are 0.5-2 tons per hectare.
There is hope: next year, the Kenyan authorities will begin testing maize varieties that they hope will provide high yields and prove more resistant to drought.
The fact that virtually all US maize and soybean farmers, and all papaya farmers, use GM seed indicates that it is good business for them.
New drought-tolerant maize varieties, for example, are already benefiting more than two million smallholder farmers in Africa.
By 2016, maize yields are expected to increase by as much as 30%, benefiting up to 40 million people in 13 sub-Saharan countries.
Shade trees, maize, and plantains are also being planted to help diversify incomes and increase productivity.
In the US, for example, ethanol accounted for 8% of transportation fuel in 2011, but consumed nearly 40% of the country’s maize production.
The fortification of maize meal with folic acid in South Africa – one of the projects supported by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) – was followed by a 40% reduction in spina bifida, a serious deformation of the neural tube in new-born babies.
Prices for oil, coal, copper, gold, wheat, maize, iron ore, and many other commodities have doubled, tripled, or risen even more.
Today, the US turns 40% of its maize output into ethanol to be burned in cars.
When I met her in 2012, she had just harvested her first crop of maize grown from a seed specifically adapted for Tanzania’s climate.
Even during a bad crop year that caused many of Joyce’s vegetables to wither and die, her maize crop flourished.
Instead, the maize harvest ensured that Joyce’s family had enough to eat – and even enough extra income for Joyce to pay her children’s school fees.
China’s population is eating more, notably more meat, which in turn requires the importation of higher volumes of animal feed made from soybeans and maize.
Indeed, in the United States, two billion bushels of maize production out of a total harvest of 12 billion bushels in the 2006-2007 marketing year are being converted into ethanol.
This is forecast to rise to 3.5 billion bushels in the coming 2007-2008 marketing year, and more than 70 new ethanol plants are under construction, which will double the amount of maize consumed for ethanol production.
The squeeze on maize supplies for food will only intensify.
With wheat markets tightening, more land is used for wheat planting, reducing maize or soybean production.
One implication, for example, is that the heavy subsidies given in the US for fuel production from maize and soybeans are misguided.
As I have seen in my own work, maize plants grown in soil infused with certain bacteria develop root systems that are triple the size of plants grown in untreated soils.
In Zambia, research conducted by local governments, in collaboration with the anti-poverty charity Concern Worldwide, found that new hybrid seeds produced roughly four to five tons of maize per hectare, compared to Africa’s average of one ton per hectare.
International prices of maize, rice, and wheat, for example, reached their highest levels in 30 years, causing political and economic instability – and leading to food riots – in many countries.
In order to counteract suspicious behavior – such as traders requesting permission to invest amounts that are above their speculative-position limits – the Commission lifted exemptions for two firms trading in maize, wheat, and soybean futures.
The country’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network notes that already-high maize prices will continue to rise until the end of the year, further straining food security and economic performance.
The introduction of GM maize, soybean, and cotton in South Africa, for example, helped raise farmers’ incomes by more than $1 billion from 1998 to 2012.
This was largely the result of GM maize varieties, which increased annual yields by 32%, and now represent nearly 90% of the country’s maize crop.
Kenyans are already expected to benefit enormously from new GM varieties, such as insect-resistant maize, that are being developed by local scientists.
Far from being under-regulated, GM plants (and other organisms) have been subjected to expensive, discriminatory, and unscientific over-regulation that has limited the commercial success of maize, cotton, canola, soybeans, and papaya, among other crops.
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