'UK's first grower of white maize' gets royal visit

A farmer, who started growing white maize after struggling to find the staple crop he had eaten growing up, was visited by ...
Zimbabwe

Drought-Threatened Zimbabwe Faces A Quandary: Grow Maize Or Not?

EZIMNYAMA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Zimbabwe’s farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict. But that has not ...
The Mail & Guardian

What Zimbabwe’s maize import ban means for SA farmers and exporters

But the country may not keep the ban for long, because a shortfall of about 700,000 is expected later in the season ...
Reuters

As drought destroys maize, Zimbabwe tries out new staples

JAMBEZI, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For more than 20 years, Dalarex Ncube grew maize in arid Jambezi District, one of Zimbabwe's driest regions, and his family ate maize porridge, the ...