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Suresh L.M. receives Africa Region Food Security Leadership award for combating maize crop disease, enhancing food security in Eastern Africa.

South Africa is well positioned to supply maize to drought-stricken Kenya in the current marketing year, but policy constraints around genetically modified (GM) grain remain a key obstacle to ...

A field study in western Kenya found that a genetically engineered microbial fertilizer significantly increased maize yields, especially on moderately fertile soils, without increasing synthetic ...

The South African farmers are projected to see a 3% decrease in maize harvest for the 2025/2026 season, with an expected yield of 16.13 million metric tons, according to the government's Crop ...

Sept 27 (Reuters) - South African farmers are expected to harvest 6% more maize in the 2022/2023 season compared with the previous season, the government's Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on ...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - A maize pest that has devastated crops in southern Africa is a South American species which is harder to detect and eradicate than its African counterpart, agriculture officials and ...

JOHANNESBURG/LUSAKA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Zambia has robust maize stocks and sees little risk in using them to partly fill a regional gap as a supply crunch looms in southern Africa, pushing up futures ...

We continue to observe maize exports from South Africa to the Southern African region, but the volumes remain much smaller than I anticipated. The stocks are low in Zimbabwe, and I thought they would ...

Oct 26 (Reuters) - South African farmers are expected to harvest 6% more maize in the 2022/2023 season compared with the previous season, the government's Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on ...