Do you chow down corn on the cob or munch on maize? More importantly, is there even a difference between them? Ultimately, maize and corn are the same crop, and the two terms only represent ...

By reconstructing the genomes of archaeological maize cobs and kernels, the study reveals that 1,000-year-old maize from rockshelters in the Ozark region of Arkansas, US, shares a close genetic ...

The fresh maize business, once dominated by men in the Njombe region, has seen an increasing number of women joining the trade.

It’s well established that maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild Mexican grass. But the route of corn’s spread into what is now the southwestern United States has been more murky: ...

It couldn't just be boiled and eaten straight away as it is today. Nine thousand years ago, the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill. It needed to be cooked in a ...

But, for some crops like maize, the tedious task of manually shelling the cobs can quickly dilute that joy, especially for small scale farmers who cannot afford a tractor-powered shelling machine.

The drier can dry 500 kilos of maize to moisture level of 13 per cent in three hours. The main source of energy are cobs which are burned to provide heat. An in built fan then passes the heat and ...

It couldn't just be boiled and eaten straight away as it is today. Nine thousand years ago, the maize cob was very hard, and eating it raw would have made you very ill. It needed to be cooked in a ...