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I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that. – Maneo Motsamai	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's enough food between corn maize and wheat and oil that's stored in silos or on container ships in Ukraine to feed 400 million people, imagine if we can't get that food to those who are starving, to those who are hungry. – Barron Segar	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In the short term, between now and three months, the conflict will affect food supply primarily from a pricing perspective, as net importers of products like wheat, which influences bread and cereals, sunflower oil and maize, African countries are fairly exposed on some of these supplies that are coming out of Russia and Ukraine. There will be challenges if the war continues for more than three months — because ordinarily, countries usually keep stock of supplies for three to five months. – Wandile Sihlobo	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The first one we found was in the transition zone on the forest edge, where there are some trees but mostly maize and cassava plants, when we found it we got goosebumps and just started jumping around. We didn't know if we would get any more, but once we got into the forest there were plenty, although I don't know how long that will last. – Krystal Tolley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The company has supply contracts preventing sellers from sourcing their maize from the forest or any other protected area, we work with (environmental group) Fanamby to control our suppliers, respect the contracts' clauses and to ensure the traceability of our maize supply ... using maize from protected areas would be against what we consider to be our society responsibility. – Francis Ambroise	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we're looking for is not to change the habit of the population, knowing that in the south they are used to eating maize and cassava, we don't want to add another challenge to the ones they are already facing. – Patrice Talla Takoukam	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
They are doing work in the three main maize provinces, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West, they go into a field and they do crop counts and plant counts to get an average yield for the province. – Marda Scheepers	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The main agricultural products – maize, groundnuts, millet, sorghum and rice – suffer enormously due to their high dependence on rainfall. The June 15 deadline for (starting) farming has been unreliable with early as well as late onset of the planting season year in and year out. – Bongkiyung Emmanuel Nyuyki	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For the summer maize crop we need the rain immediately as it is now in the pollination stages. April is too late for the summer crops, and for the winter crop, the forecast is not clear. – Wandile Sihlobo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country. – Obert Gutu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In Brazil, producers of maize and soybeans are seeing prices (in local currency terms) that are similar to historic prices we had three of four years ago, they have an incentive to continue increasing production. Our producers are facing a harder export environment. – Robert Johansson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have to sell cattle to buy feed because we have been advised to reduce the numbers. But feed is expensive and I also want to plant maize to feed the cows but I cannot. It is too dry. – Talent Cele	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Half of the forecast cut reflected dimmer expectations about maize crops in India and Ukraine, mostly due to adverse weather. – The FAO	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's common sense that any maize farmer, be it in Spain or in Portugal or in Romania, would like to reduce production costs and eventually reap a bigger harvest. – Laurentiu Baciu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Romanian grain farmers will gladly embrace the genetically modified maize crops, it's common sense that any maize farmer, be it in Spain or in Portugal or in Romania, would like to reduce production costs and eventually reap a bigger harvest. – Laurentiu Baciu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A lot of people in south and east Africa will have to move away from maize, which is the main staple at the moment. – Luigi Guarino	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Unlike maize, orange potato can brave most conditions and is also resistant to rust diseases. – Himelda Tumbo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since I started growing and eating orange sweet potatoes, my family’s health has improved remarkably. Actually my children like potatoes more than ugali (maize meal). – Maulid Ali	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Policy makers have mainly ignored this important crop because it is widely perceived as a poor person’s crop that people turn to when maize fails. – Godfrey Pyumpa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We were fed only ground dry maize in the afternoons. It was not good for human consumption, many of us that were captured died in Sambisa Forest. Even after our rescue about 10 died on our way to this place. – Cecilia Abel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Most of the guys in the project used to grow maize for household consumption. Now they are making money as well. – Jurie Mentz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Maize is one of our staple foods which our people depend upon so our department would approach other funding agencies. – Senzeni Zokwana	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

I boil water to cook mealie meal (maize porridge) and the power goes. I can’t eat, it’s a waste. I can’t cope like that.

– Maneo Motsamai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's enough food between corn maize and wheat and oil that's stored in silos or on container ships in Ukraine to feed 400 million people, imagine if we can't get that food to those who are starving, to those who are hungry.

– Barron Segar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In the short term, between now and three months, the conflict will affect food supply primarily from a pricing perspective, as net importers of products like wheat, which influences bread and cereals, sunflower oil and maize, African countries are fairly exposed on some of these supplies that are coming out of Russia and Ukraine. There will be challenges if the war continues for more than three months — because ordinarily, countries usually keep stock of supplies for three to five months.

– Wandile Sihlobo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The first one we found was in the transition zone on the forest edge, where there are some trees but mostly maize and cassava plants, when we found it we got goosebumps and just started jumping around. We didn't know if we would get any more, but once we got into the forest there were plenty, although I don't know how long that will last.

– Krystal Tolley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The company has supply contracts preventing sellers from sourcing their maize from the forest or any other protected area, we work with (environmental group) Fanamby to control our suppliers, respect the contracts' clauses and to ensure the traceability of our maize supply ... using maize from protected areas would be against what we consider to be our society responsibility.

– Francis Ambroise

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What we're looking for is not to change the habit of the population, knowing that in the south they are used to eating maize and cassava, we don't want to add another challenge to the ones they are already facing.

– Patrice Talla Takoukam

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They are doing work in the three main maize provinces, Mpumalanga, Free State and North West, they go into a field and they do crop counts and plant counts to get an average yield for the province.

– Marda Scheepers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The main agricultural products – maize, groundnuts, millet, sorghum and rice – suffer enormously due to their high dependence on rainfall. The June 15 deadline for (starting) farming has been unreliable with early as well as late onset of the planting season year in and year out.

– Bongkiyung Emmanuel Nyuyki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the summer maize crop we need the rain immediately as it is now in the pollination stages. April is too late for the summer crops, and for the winter crop, the forecast is not clear.

– Wandile Sihlobo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

ZANU-PF should be utterly ashamed of hosting an expensive birthday bash for their aging ruler whilst more than 90 percent of Zimbabweans are wallowing in grinding poverty caused by decades of Robert Mugabe's misrule and mismanagement of the economy, the money that is being budgeted for this ill-conceived birthday bash should actually be used to import maize to avert the impending starvation in Masvingo province and other parts of the country.

– Obert Gutu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In Brazil, producers of maize and soybeans are seeing prices (in local currency terms) that are similar to historic prices we had three of four years ago, they have an incentive to continue increasing production. Our producers are facing a harder export environment.

– Robert Johansson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have to sell cattle to buy feed because we have been advised to reduce the numbers. But feed is expensive and I also want to plant maize to feed the cows but I cannot. It is too dry.

– Talent Cele

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Half of the forecast cut reflected dimmer expectations about maize crops in India and Ukraine, mostly due to adverse weather.

– The FAO

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's common sense that any maize farmer, be it in Spain or in Portugal or in Romania, would like to reduce production costs and eventually reap a bigger harvest.

– Laurentiu Baciu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Romanian grain farmers will gladly embrace the genetically modified maize crops, it's common sense that any maize farmer, be it in Spain or in Portugal or in Romania, would like to reduce production costs and eventually reap a bigger harvest.

– Laurentiu Baciu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of people in south and east Africa will have to move away from maize, which is the main staple at the moment.

– Luigi Guarino

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unlike maize, orange potato can brave most conditions and is also resistant to rust diseases.

– Himelda Tumbo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since I started growing and eating orange sweet potatoes, my family’s health has improved remarkably. Actually my children like potatoes more than ugali (maize meal).

– Maulid Ali

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Policy makers have mainly ignored this important crop because it is widely perceived as a poor person’s crop that people turn to when maize fails.

– Godfrey Pyumpa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We were fed only ground dry maize in the afternoons. It was not good for human consumption, many of us that were captured died in Sambisa Forest. Even after our rescue about 10 died on our way to this place.

– Cecilia Abel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Most of the guys in the project used to grow maize for household consumption. Now they are making money as well.

– Jurie Mentz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Maize is one of our staple foods which our people depend upon so our department would approach other funding agencies.

– Senzeni Zokwana

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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