M. S. Swaminathan

In any case, if I grow hybrid maize or hybrid pearl mallet or any hybrid, I have to sow fresh seed every year. I cannot keep the seed of the same plant. If I keep the seed of the same plant, yield will be much less and there will be a wide variation in the field, like maturity period, quality and so on.

Indian Scientist

Gavin Creel

I have no idea why we bleed maize and blue, but we do. There's something about Michigan. Maybe it's that we're less jaded out there in the Midwest, I don't know, but it's a love of what we do and each other that brings us together. It's just a magic place.

American Actor

Norman Borlaug

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago.

American Scientist

Kwasi Kwarteng

In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa.

British Politician

Amarinder Singh

Maize is used both as fodder and grain in the state. A large number of fodder-baled silage units have come up in Punjab, which take maize crop from the farmers at reasonable price and turn it into baled silage.

Indian Politician

P. J. O'Rourke

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

American Comedian

Bill Gates

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.

American Businessman

Elizabeth Blackburn

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.

Australian Scientist

Barbara McClintock

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

Maize is a staple food in many cultures, often referred to in different cuisines.

Global Staple

Maize can be various colors, not just yellow; this reflects in different varieties.

Not Just Yellow

The word 'maize' appears in idioms and expressions with agricultural or rural connotations.

Part of Expressions

Maize as a color can vary from light to medium yellow, not a precise shade.

Color Ambiguity

The color maize is often associated with autumn and harvest-themed decorations.

Seasonal Usage

The color maize is used to describe clothing items, suggesting a casual, earthy tone.

Fashion Descriptions

 These mountains of maize inspired numerous corn concoctions. Cornstarch could be used as a thickening agent for everything from gasoline to glue or processed into a low-cost sweetener known as High-Fructose Corn Syrup. Maize quickly became one of the cheapest animal feeds worldwide. This allowed for inexpensive meat production,

The history of the world...

 the world and what we'll do is we get as much nice meat as we can find and we throw it on the fire and we'll have some vegetables that will do on the fire basically corn on the cob there'll also be salads and a bit of pup which is basically a white polenta it's maize meal that's ground down mixed with water

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 because it's a high value-add product." The farmers get three to four times the yields that they would with maize. And so, using patient capital -- money that they could raise early on, that actually got below market returns and was willing to go the long haul and be combined

Jacqueline Novogratz:...

 that fortifies maize flour at small mills in Africa. Now they have a market-based model that helps provide fortified, nutritious flour to their clients of the small mills at no additional cost. Right now it's reaching up to three million people

The Mindset Shift Needed...

 most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize

How to rebuild the world...

 within my lifetime to see this is where we are living. We have enough water. This is a map of where we grow our food in the world. This is the areas that we will rely on most for rice and maize and corn.

Maps that show us who we...

 how prestigious the maize School of Business is and I was like yeah and she told me that I was the first person to ever transfer from the business school to the wildlife school and one day I

Why Four Cowboys Rode...

 one of the hero twins known to all for having vanquished the lords of the underworld. A new race of humans was created, made from maize. This state of balance was not to last, however.

The Maya myth of the...

 the death of the maiden a shift from a diet of vegetables and potatoes was changed to the food of the elite maize an animal protein

Mummified Child...

 from my hand and once a baby did manage to grab a grain its mother wrenched open its jaws extracted the maize unaided herself