He not only cancelled on the spot the record of all sums owed to him, but bade them keep for themselves the whole of the coming maize harvest.

The productivity benefits of that added 12 months would, one study concluded, increase the Kenyan maize harvest by almost a quarter.

However, maize harvests began to fluctuate widely, from highs of about 1.5 million tonnes in 1989 and about 1.3.

Following a bad maize harvest in 2005, almost five million of Malawi's 13 million people needed emergency food aid during the Malawian food crisis.

The maize harvest was again good in 2005, helping boost GDP and agricultural exports.

Mr. Mugabe says Zimbabwe is agriculturally self-sufficient, but outside experts say this year's maize harvest was far short of the nation's needs.

As for corn, in 2011, 49% of the total maize harvest was used for livestock feed (including the percentage of waste from distillers grains).

More frequent heat waves, they discovered, will likely cause a 20 to 40 percent drop in tropical and subtropical rice and maize harvests by the end of the century.

The region's maize harvest made up 7.5% of the nation's total.

When, in the middle of the maize harvest, the Union changes the rules of intervention for maize?