CCM presidential candidate, Samia Suluhu Hassan has said pigeon peas can no longer be regarded merely as a food crop but have now become a lucrative cash crop, transforming farmers’ incomes and ...

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Good harvests, disruptions to international trade, and demand shifts have reduced recent and forecast prices for several important farm commodities, but other commodities continue to fare reasonably ...

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1 Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, ...

Phangyul farmers in Wangdue Phodrang are now growing maize as an alternative cash crop. Phangyuel Gewog Administration says maize has the potential to become a reliable income source. To date, farmers ...

India’s maize yield is quite poor and is below four tonnes per hectare whereas the world average is six tonnes. Despite that, India had been largely self-sufficient and has sometimes even exported ...