Sigbritt, pass Angelica the porridge.

Popped maize.

When things were bad, we had porridge.

Popped maize, Master Wooley?

Popped maize. Here we are.

Otherwise you'd flood your entire town with warm porridge.

Oh, I knew it had something to do with porridge.

It's two breeding cycles for maize.

Like everyone else, we grew maize.

If you don't want that goatish gullet pasted up with hot porridge.

We have the magic porridge pot in the form of Walmart and Tesco.

Get your fresh Indian popped maize, tuppence a poke.

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

Stories like The Magic Porridge Pot, where you had a pot where if you knew the magic words, this pot would just make as much food as you liked, without you having to do any work, provided you could remember the other magic word to stop it making porridge.

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

With support from agricultural extension services some managed small harvests of sorghum, maize and cow peas.

And they're giving about in a modern day, caloric restriction diet, I guess they're giving porridge, with a few grains of rice.

And you can make a very thick, sticky porridge out of it, which you can use to bind together the charcoal briquettes.

A French seller and a Spanish buyer concluded a number of contracts for the sale of maize.

The quantity of food is insufficient and its quality mediocre, maize being the main item of nutrition.

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

They come each year for the maize and Brussels sprouts which they love, and they're usually quite wellbehaved.

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

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.

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.

In recent years, more farmers ventured into the plantation of tobacco and cotton instead of maize in rain fed areas.

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.

The mainstay of the agricultural sector is cattle and sheep, while maize, wheat and millet are grown in the high rainfall areas.

The Public Distribution System (PDS) ration remains unchanged at 250 grams per person per day composed of a mix of maize and rice.

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.

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

This situation results in scarcity of fuelwood and charcoal and pushes many farmers to use elementary forms of energy sources such as cow dung and maize stoves

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.

And conveniently, one of my students was from Ghana, and he remembered a dish his mom used to make for him called kokonte, which is a very sticky porridge made out of the cassava root.

As the area planted with soybean expands, there is less land for grazing livestock and less land for other traditional crops such as maize, wheat, cotton, potatoes and lentils.

This policy can be very affordable providing porridge in Guatemala cost just 23.25 per child per year, while the monetary value of the increase in the children s future wages is between two and four times higher.

The total value of the staple commodities distributed was 3,574 million pesos (approximately US 310 million) the total was made up of 283,545 metric tons of maize, 12,950 tons of frijoles, 15,038 tons of rice, 41,791 tons of sugar, 80,959 tons of maize flour and 6,856 tons of powdered milk in addition, groceries and general merchandise of a total value of 1,968 million pesos (approximately US 180 million) were sold.

Furthermore, as rice is the preferred staple for Koreans, food insecure families can barter their rice rations for larger quantities of maize less popular staple and thus obtain more food for the family.

26. In 1996, total shipping charges for three products alone (wheat, maize and flour) were 13.4 million higher than they would have been had Cuba not been denied access to United States markets.

Experiments of yield estimation for wheat and maize in northern China and paddy rice in southern China have been completed. Work on a more extensive application of the technology is in full swing

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.

In terms of yield estimation for staple crops, fields of winter wheat, maize and paddy rice, comprising 85 per cent of total grain output, have been chosen for the work, covering 10 provinces and municipalities. Using the county as the statistical unit, yield estimates at the provincial (or regional) level have been forecasted. The yield estimation accuracy (area and total output) for wheat is above 95 per cent for maize, above 90 per cent and for paddy rice, above 85 per cent.