Maybe I would grow avocados and macadamia nuts, where he grew maize, because that gives me more money for the same piece of land.
The selling price the government sets for maize is still not very good, unfortunately.
With this hybrid, even when we have small rains, the maize is very good.
I’ve been a farmer for six years, mainly of maize, but also coffee and sweet potatoes.
As much as today’s sweet corn is an improvement over its maize ancestor, the supermarket shelves of tomorrow could be a vast advance beyond what we have today.
Duarte owns a small plot of land where she grazes cattle and grows beans, maize, bananas, and oranges.
The smells of roasting maize, diesel fumes, and floral soap from the streets of Harare are still seared into my brain.
The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.
They also use the papelotes wrapped in paper and sometimes in the dried leaf of maize.
The quantity necessary for each horse per day costs about eightpence, and his maize as much more.
I know not whether I have before mentioned, that a great quantity of maize is cultivated in this part of the kingdom.
Rice, maize and other grains are raised in large quantities; cotton and tobacco are cultivated.