FARMERS in Chemba and Kondoa districts, Dodoma Region are losing hope for this year’s maize harvest as extreme heat dries up their fields. Aziza Hussein, a farmer in Sambwa village, Kondoa, watches ...

To protect thousands of varieties of heirloom corn, Mexican leaders have amended the constitution to ban the planting of ...

Until then, it has to signal to the growers that it favours them getting good returns and expects them to continue sowing pulses rather than forcing them to shift to crops such as maize (corn).

As an avid gardener, winter is a time of planning. With a cup of tea in hand, I am combing through seed catalogs looking for my old favorites or new varieties I want to try in my garden this year.

Yai Praiwanaprasert, a corn farmer in northern Thailand ... “We will (also) encourage farmers to shift away from monoculture crops like maize, rice, and sugarcane toward rotational crops such as ...