The journey has not been without challenges --- securing funding, navigating complex policies, and ensuring consistent ...

The early months of 2025 are set to bring financial challenges for South African consumers as forecasts indicate a significant rise in the prices of white maize, a staple food, coupled with an ...

The “organic” designation isn’t necessarily a measure of how healthy or nutritious a food is. Instead, it’s about the farming and processing practices used. ”The USDA sets the rules for ...

Even maize could not resist and also came under pressure from the historically high level ... Data on production of ‘other flour’ is often used as a proxy for demand from the starch and bioethanol ...

These findings highlight the critical roles of starch metabolism, hormonal regulation, and photosynthetic efficiency in heat tolerance, offering valuable insights for developing heat-resilient maize ...

While much about modern farming techniques centers around the use of synthetic pesticides (a catch-all term that includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other similar substances) on large ...

The Port of Durban is receiving a shipment of imported white maize – the first import of the grain since March 2017, when South Africa was experiencing a severe drought. The African Baza ...

He directed officials to focus department farms solely on producing seeds for natural farming and to map farmers cultivating wheat and maize through these methods across the state. The Chief Minister ...