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South Africa entered the 2026-27 maize marketing year with another record harvest and sizeable carryover stocks after exports in the previous season fell short of expectations amid weak demand from ...

Almost all of Africa's maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research. Scientists have highlighted how almost the entire African maize ...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa imported white maize from the United States last week for the first time since 2004, the country's Grain Information Service (SAGIS) said on Tuesday. White maize is the ...

The first all-African genetically modified crop plant with resistance to the severe maize streak virus (MSV), which seriously reduces the continent’s maize yield, has been developed by scientists from ...

Surging maize prices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan have created a lucrative trade for people to smuggle staple food out of Zambia. For instance, 50kg of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine As many as 23,000 tonnes of Ukrainian maize has been sent to Mozambique and ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African maize prices maintained their record run into 2016, scaling historic highs on Monday amid growing drought concerns and rand weakness. The March contract for ...

Elevated prices for the staple food maize are putting pressure on cash-strapped South African consumers still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and fanning food price inflation. JOHANNESBURG, May ...

South Africa entered the 2026-27 maize marketing year with another record harvest and sizeable carryover stocks after exports ...