French farmers had harvested 67% of this year's grain maize crop by Oct. 3, compared with 51% a week earlier and 6% by the same week last year, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Friday. PARIS, Oct 7 ...

French maize crop conditions declined again last week and the harvest started much earlier than usual, data from farm office FranceAgriMer showed on Friday, in a new sign that dry and hot summer ...

May 25 (Reuters) - South African farmers are expected to harvest 4.65% more maize in the 2022/2023 season compared with the previous season, the government's Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on ...

Challenging wet weather, waterlogged soils and flooded sites mean growers must be flexible and develop a farm-specific ...

The South African farmers are projected to see a 3% decrease in maize harvest for the 2025/2026 season, with an expected yield of 16.13 million metric tons, according to the government's Crop ...

MINSK, 18 November (BelTA) — According to the latest data, Belarus has harvested over 5.119 million tonnes of sugar beet and almost 2.4 million tonnes of grain maize, BelTA learned from the Belarusian ...

Malawi’s maize remains the cheapest in southern Africa, averaging K963 per kilogramme (kg), yet the cost of fertiliser keeps rising, now at K3748.97 per kg (or K187 448.5 per 50kg), a new study has ...

During this season of unrelenting rains, the traditional method of maize drying by spreading the grains on a polythene sheet to dry under the sun is not sustainable. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard] As days go ...

Harvesting machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops lies idle in the yard as farmers wait for the rains to subdue before they embark on getting their crop from the farms. There ...

"If the current weather pattern continues maize production may drop by 30 percent. The high production areas have not had enough rain," Zambia National Farmers' Union spokesman Kingsley Kaswende said.

Lawmakers have raised concerns about inadequate drying and storage facilities for rice and maize that are undermining efforts to cut post-harvest losses.They also demanded that the Ministry of ...