INTRODUCTION. Maize (Zea mays L.), which belongs to the family Gramineae and genus Zea, is a staple food in many places worldwide and the third most important crop after rice and wheat ().World maize production is currently 1136 million metric tonnes (MMT) and in India, it is 30.2 MMT ().Due to its diverse uses as a food …
DetailsDownloadable! Maize is important in Uganda because of its dual function both as an income-generating cash crop and as a staple crop that improves food security. Three interventions on the maize sector are selected for a substantive cost-benefit analysis investigation, namely: 1. "Increasing the utilization of commercial inputs"- the focus of …
DetailsOne important food that needs urgent attention is maize. Maize is an important food globally including East Africa. However, post-harvest loses poses a lot of challenges to …
DetailsExplaining the new technology, Dr Eliud Kireger, Director General at KALRO said that the technology, Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) eliminates the need for detasseling, a highly intensive process that accounts for up to 40 percent increase in the cost of hybrid maize seeds. Detasseling is the process of removing tassels from …
DetailsProduction of maize in Uganda currently is largely at subsistence level except for a few commercial farmers. Maize is produced with very few productivity enhancing inputs and yield is ... Maize is a staple food which is both low cost and easy to prepare. For this reason demand by urban consumers and institutions has been rising. Nutritionally ...
Detailsshellers is also still a challenge and it imposes an extra cost to the farmers hence reducing their profits from maize growing. In this chapter, we reviewed maize shelling process in low developing countries particularly the categories of maize shelling, maize sheller design requirements, use of equations to design sheller
DetailsThe major determinants of maize production in Uganda are anticipated to be; farm Size, family labour, bags of maize sold, quantities of seeds used and quantities of fertilizers …
DetailsUses of Maize. Maize is a versatile crop. This means that every part of the plant has its own economic value. Maize grain is used as food [Boiled, roasted, or ground into meal for porridge and pasta], as feed for …
DetailsThe maize production dynamics over the last quarter century build on earlier trends. Since 1961, the global maize area under maize production nearly doubled, up from 106 M ha (TE1963) to the current 197 M ha (+ 87%), with an acceleration of area expansion since the early 2000s (Fig. 1).On current trends, and with wheat area …
DetailsIn Uganda, over 70% of the population depends on agriculture, usually eking out a precarious subsistence from tiny plots of land. Despite growing food crops such as …
DetailsGlobally, agricultural production needs to be increased by 70– by 2050 to ensure that a global population of over 9 billion can be fed [].It has been projected that a global decline in annual growth of food production from about 2.2 to 1.1% is likely to occur for the period 2006–2050 [].In Africa, the annual growth rate is projected to decline from …
DetailsIn the wet-milling process, maize is separated into relatively pure chemical compound classes of starch, protein, oil, and fiber. ... a review on the legal framework for maize flour and corn meal production; the economic feasibility of industrially fortified maize flour and corn meal in different contexts; and a review of the factors that ...
Detailsincluding low soil fertility, lack of improved maize varieties, erratic rainfall patterns and drought stress during some seasons. Maize production is generally characterized by low …
DetailsApproximately 8,0 million tons of maize grain are produced in South Africa annually on approximately 3,1 million ha of land. Half of the production consists of white maize, for human food consumption. Maize needs 450 to 600 mm of water per season, which is mainly acquired from the soil moisture reserves. About 15,0 kg of grain are produced for
DetailsPrime Easy ways to plant maize for high yields Friday, March 23, 2018 — updated on January 06, 2021
Detailsproduction was estimated at 189,133,955 tons, harvested from 5,167,388 ha of land [33]. e same statistics esti- mated Uganda's production level at 37,654 tons, har-
DetailsMaize is an important food and income security crop that supports livelihood of millions of small-scale farmers in Uganda. Production of maize has increased from 2.8 million MT (2015) to 4 million MT (2017).
DetailsThese technologies include: (1) drought-tolerant maize varieties to strengthen the resilience of food production, (2) imazapyr-resistant maize varieties that withstand parasitic striga weeds, (3 ...
DetailsThis method was chosen because it is cheap (low cost method) and requires low investment in biochar production equipment. Therefore, this fits well within the budget of resource poor smallholder farmers of Uganda . The in-situ biochar preparation was conducted on a maize farmer field situated in Lira City, Uganda where there was …
DetailsMany smallholder farmers produce maize for both consumption and income purposes. Despite the role played by maize, its income production is low, especially in developing countries.
DetailsIn Uganda, about 90% of the maize produced is cultivated manually on small-scale farms with limited access to appropriate technology [3]; these farms constitute close to 86% of …
DetailsPreferred soil for maize production should also be deep, well-aerated with moderate pH 5.5-6.5, and rich in organic matter. Altitude . Maize grows well at all altitudes but particular varieties are more suitable for the different altitudes ranging from 0 to 2,900 m above sea level (a.s.l.) The optimum temperature for maize growth is 30 °C. pH
DetailsThe Uganda Value-Added Maize Alliance (UVAMA) is a partnership between USAID, AgroWays Ltd., and CARANA Corporation. The three-year initiative has opened a new and consistent market outlet for smallholder-grown maize through value addition to maize grain and the use of processed maize byproducts in food items.
DetailsThe small custom based machines can solve the problems of small landholdings with low resource potential (Krupnik et al., 2013). In most of the developed countries, maize combines (Wang et al ...
DetailsThe World Bank estimates that there are about 1.3 million ha. of land suitable for maize production in Uganda (World Bank, July 1984 p. 49). ... in a normal year they usually have at least a modest market surplus. Maize is a staple food which is both low cost and easy to prepare. ... just undergoing multiplication process. It is nevertheless ...
DetailsA COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF MAIZE PRODUCTION AND MARKETING IN UGANDA Leonard Leung Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Cambridge Resources International Inc. Glenn P. Jenkins, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Cambridge Resources International Inc. Development Discussion Paper: 2012 …
DetailsOver the years, total maize production in Uganda has gradually increased, from roughly 800,000 tonnes in 2000 to 2,575,000 tonnes in 2019. But this is largely due to a steady expansion of maize ...
DetailsReceived 9 April 2022; Revised 16 August 2022; Accepted 21 September 2022; Published 10 November 2022
DetailsUnder Uganda's Food and Drug Act, producers of maize flour are required to fortify their products with a regulated blend of vitamins and minerals aimed at reducing national …
DetailsThe Uganda Value-Added Maize Alliance (UVAMA) is a partnership between USAID, AgroWays Ltd., and CARANA Corporation. The three-year initiative has opened a new …
DetailsRegardless of the farm sizes, Uganda's maize yield levels are low and are generally between 1.0 and 1.8 metric tons/ hectare. Crop failure due to drought can cause ... Over the last two decades (1990-2010), both maize area and production in Uganda increased dramatically (Figure 2). ... rather than for food security. However, the growing cost ...
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