Consider this ancient ear of maize, which Walter Hough pulled out of a New Mexico cave more than a century ago. Hough worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (the repository ...

IT is well known among maize-growers that the number of rows of grain on an ear of maize varies from 8 to 24, or even more, according to the breed; also that in the same breed the number may vary ...

According to him, pests do not attack TELA maize like the others he had planted in the previous season. The ears are full, and the crop matures quickly. Mohammed revealed that although he planted ...

The Punjab government on Monday announced introduction of a new high-yield maize hybrid ... medium-placed ears with flint, yellow-orange capped grains. Adding that the new hybrid would be a ...

Farmers across northern Nigeria are expanding their farmlands to cultivate more of the high-yielding TELA maize variety following a bumper harvest last season. The move signals growing confidence ...