It goes without saying, but choosing land suitable for growing a heat-hungry crop like maize – such as fields that receive good sunlight – is essential, says Mr Montgomery, but what 2024 also ...

A cross-section of farmers in Kiambu have expressed fears over poor harvests this season after the county registered low ...

Abiotic stresses such as salinity, extreme temperatures, and drought, along with biotic factors like bacterial, fungal, and viral infections, have drastically reduced maize production and grain ...

“I always think of big maize leaves as solar panels and, unfortunately, they just didn’t get enough sun through June and July to put power in the plant,” says James. “Some had no cobs at ...

A report from KNBS Director General Abdulkadir Awes revealed that sifted maize flour has been the biggest casualty in terms of a price hike from between November and December 2024, experiencing a 7% ...

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates. The Russian defence ministry said it had swapped 150 Ukrainian soldiers held captive ...

More information: Tiago Hermengildo et al, Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon, Nature Human Behaviour (2024). DOI: 10.1038 ...