Ramped calibration strips have been suggested as a way for grain producers to determine nitrogen needs more accurately …. The strips use incrementally increasing levels of nitrogen and enable producers to conduct an experiment in each field to … determine nitrogen needs. This study determines whether predictions from the program Ramp Analyzer 1.2 are replicable in …

/slowly than others warrants examining the regional maize market linkages within the past decade. Using regional monthly wholesale … robustness and the limitations of other approaches. Results indicate that regional maize markets are integrated. Bidirectional …

A cereal in full expansion, maize is currently eaten by two out of every three Cameroonians. The NCRE (National Cereals … Research and Extension) project introduced and distributed new improved varieties to increase maize output. The objective of … this research is to study determinants guiding the adoption of new varieties of maize following the example of “Cameroon …

This paper presents a pair of models of the storage of maize. One is directly based on standard financial models of … agents optimize holdings of maize by choosing from a variety of storage locations. Agents face a tradeoff between the effort … of transporting maize to high elevation granaries versus the safety they offer from theft. The second model uses a multi …

maize seed and fertilizer markets and food security in Malawi. Farmers, traders and officials were interviewed in both the … of maize seed and fertilizer. There was reduced demand hence low volume of sales in wholesale and retail markets. It was … market liberalization. On the part of production the study results showed that there was positive impact on maize production …

The aim of this paper was to analyze the maize crop at the country and the Călăraşi county level and in the two … companies submitted to the case study. This analysis highlighted the importance of the maize crop, crop that is being cultivated …. The maize crop is very popular in our country because it finds good environmental factors conducive to a proper …

classified as arid and semi-arid. Agricultural products depend on proper rainfall. Staple food of Kenya is maize, which accounted …

technical efficiency of 233 smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania and provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of … inefficiency with the aim of finding way to increase smallholders’ maize production and productivity. Results shows that … efficiencies of smallholder maize farmers range from 0.011 to 0.910 with a mean of 0.606. Low levels of education, lack of …