By 2030, if the maize, or corn, varieties, which is the dominant crop 50 percent of the nutrition in Southern Africa are still in the field in 2030, we'll have a 30 percent decrease in production of maize because of the climate change already in 2030.

It's two breeding cycles for maize.

Like everyone else, we grew maize.

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.

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. But why did farmers in Kenya and other African countries not have access to drought resistant crop varieties before catastrophe struck?

Wheat is the most important crop the first crop we domesticated and the most important crop we still grow today.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

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The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize.

These include crop rotation, increased crop diversification, and introducing integrated pest management systems.

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Annual maize production, the basic staple, is one third of what it was several years ago.

Crop Life International (CLI)

Crop Life International (CLI)

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Crop Environment Resources Synthesis model.

Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a software system that integrates crop growth models with crop, weather and soil data and estimates potential changes in crop yields and water use.

To give you an example, between 2001 and 2002, Ethiopian maize farmers produced two years of bumper harvest.

The main subsistence crops are manioc, millet, sorghum, maize, potatoes, taros, plantains, yams, peanuts, rice, marrow, pulses and sesame.

Other uses of remote imaging together with data from the ground included maps of soil salinity, biomass, crop management, and crop yields.

Gambia reported a meteorological network of 15 synoptic stations, 44 rainfall stations and 18 crop monitoring stations for observation of crop phenology.

In Ethiopia, for example, the variation in maize prices from year to year is as much as 50 percent annually.

Besides commercial fertilizers and food waste, biogas plants increasingly process energy crops such as cereals, maize (whole plants) and grass.

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And it will produce a food crop.

The oilseed crop comprises three essential parts.

The next three biscuits are the foods that we decide to feed to livestock, the maize, the wheat and the soya.

That in turn, because of the weak marketing system, led to an 80 percent collapse in maize prices in the country.

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

International cooperation in illicit crop eradication and alternative development

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) used remote sensing data in constructing area frame samples (using data from small sample areas as an aid to estimating crops and acreages), crop specific land cover mapping, direct estimation of planted crop area, and assessment of crop conditions.

Unfortunately, Kenya s government listened and did not permit their farmers to grow genetically modified (GM) maize, even though it has been approved, sown, harvested, and eaten by both humans and animals in South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and other countries for many years. Although Kenya has a well functioning and well funded agricultural research system, the government has not even permitted field tests of GM crop varieties.

Iran estimates its crop losses by comparing the actual production of each crop in each of the affected provinces during 1991 with the expected production of those crops, based on a statistical analysis of crop yields over a period of 11 years from 1986 to 1996.

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.

Crop condition assessment used data from the NOAA 11 satellite.

We have now about 425,000 samples of unique crop varieties.

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Its crop is as it were the heads of devils

Leaving crop residues on the soil changes the surface characteristics.

The establishment of a network of regional illicit crop monitoring experts based in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Peru contributed to the effective implementation of the illicit crop monitoring programme in the field.

Some stoves use dust or residues from processed rice, maize and other crops or from sawdust. These stoves are more economical than the traditional charcoal stoves

Saying , Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit.

Saying , Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit.

Farmers also adopt other crop management strategies to mitigate climate change impacts.