Mr.Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

But five major groups in the food industry say they are concerned that the new maize could enter the food supply.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Today eighty percent of the cropland for soybeans, maize and cotton in the United States is transgenic.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Farmers may keep the remains of maize or other crops on top of the soil.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Corn,or maize,is mostly fed to animals or made into ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

The program is designed for maize and wheat farmers like Josephat Langat.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The Department of Agriculture has approved the genetically modified maize without restrictions.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Nearly half of the farmland in the United States is planted with crops that have been genetically engineered, mainly maize,soybeans and cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

I'm a farm wife." Henning and her husband grow maize and soybeans on their 120 hectare farm.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Maize takes a lot of nutrients out of the soil. One of the virtues of the soybean plant is that it replaces those nutrients.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Corn,which is also called maize, is the other pillar of American agriculture.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Borlaug remained involved with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, even after his research took him to other parts of the globe, where he replicated the success he had had in Mexico, building his reputation as father of the "green revolution" in the 1960's.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13