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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.

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 ...

The United States, Brazil and India are the world's largest growers of GM crops while in Africa, South Africa is the only country producing GM maize on a commercial scale. Aid agency Oxfam has said 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

African countries have become reliant on a few food items. Just 20 plant species now provide 90% of our food, with three—wheat, maize, and rice—accounting for 60% of all calories consumed on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...