Frustrated by prolonged dry spells that have left their crops dry, some farmers in the country have started uprooting their ...

Like the maize plant, the maize god is decapitated at harvest time, and is then reborn - fresh, young, and beautiful at the beginning of each new growing season. John Staller, anthropologist and ...

The pest which are most dangerous at larvae stage, feed and damage leaves and inside whorls of young maize plants resulting in small shot holes or large ragged and elongated holes on the plant.

THE optimum plant density for a crop often decreases as the climate becomes drier. The usual explanation for this, that wider spacing of plants decreases competition for water 1,2, overlooks the ...

Like the maize plant, the maize god is decapitated at harvest time, and is then reborn - fresh, young, and beautiful at the beginning of each new growing season. John Staller, anthropologist and ...