In the yellow fields women were winnowing while children bundled and stacked the sheaves of maize.
Once there, they bartered their maize, vegetables, crafts and fruit for produce not available at home.
Mr. KAGWANJA: It's only focusing on the food that is acquired, I mean the maize.
Chicha is made from a masticated blend of boiled maize (or yucca root) and human saliva.
The futures and options markets for rice are, compared to wheat and maize, woefully undeveloped.
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"We didn't believe it would work, " says Mr. Longwa, the maize farmer in Mikumi.
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It also has a small genome compared to other higher plants like maize or wheat.
And the rice price has been much more volatile than those of wheat or maize.
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Mr Golan had to bring in lorry loads of maize to keep the rest alive.
Farmers would be banned from using them with sunflowers, oilseed rape, cotton and maize.
Take maize (corn, to Americans) which is used both to make ethanol and to feed livestock.
EG's line of reasoning is based on the outstanding importance of maize in the Mayan culture.
For both wheat and maize, the results, published this week by Science, were negative.
Growers of popcorn maize are fighting to get the same support as field corn.
There are other contentious trade issues too, ranging from poultry-slaughtering methods to genetically modified maize.
The futures and options markets for rice are tiny as compared to maize or wheat.
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The speculative market for rice is much smaller than that for either maize or wheat.
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Zeneca's switch-hitting maize plants are now being tested to see how useful they are for hybrid-seed production.
No, rice is rarely used to make them but the two close substitutes, wheat and maize are.
Last week, Nottinghamshire Police searched land at Maize Farm, East Heckington, Lincolnshire, in connection with their inquiry.
Malawi has gambled - and last year, the reward was millions of dollars of maize export revenues.
But overall both countries lost only 20% or so of the maize they could expect in 1998-99.
More money spent fomenting a second Green Revolution could bear fruit as well as more maize and wheat.
In Colombia drought has parched 5, 000 square kilometres of pasture and 2, 000 of maize, sorghum and soya.
Yves Savidan and his colleagues at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre are also studying apomixis.
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Take oil prices, for example: these (and government subsidies) determine how much maize is planted for ethanol.
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In Tanzania rainwater harvesting allows farmers to grow rice or vegetables instead of staples like sorghum and maize.
For the past year or so, these applied only to everyday essentials, such as bread and maize meal.
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Compared with this row, other trade niggles such as those over genetically modified maize or hormones in beef are piffling.
But maize flour and cylinders of cooking gas, two staples for the poor, have become scarce and expensive.
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