Maize and sorghum in drought. Medical search. Frequent questions

It is a subsistence crop, often intercropped with sorghum, maize and pearl millet. (fao.org)
This year its Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has said it will buy "small grains" such as sorghum or finger millet from farmers at the same price as maize - or let farmers who grow small grains swap them for an equivalent amount of maize to take home. (iol.co.za)
We can turn sorghum, millet and rapoko into three brands of refined mealie-meal," he said. (iol.co.za)
U.S. support to the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute focuses on research on crops for the semi-arid zone, including improved seeds, pest control, and food safety for maize, sorghum, millet, sweet potato, cowpea, and pigeon pea. (who.int)
Between 1.5°C-2°C warming, drought and aridity, will contribute to farmers losing 40-80 percent of cropland conducive to growing maize, millet, and sorghum by the 2030s-2040s, the researchers found. (preventionweb.net)
Production of staple foods such as millet and sorghum could plummet even further by 25 percent if global warming surpasses 2°C. (oxfamamerica.org)
Of all the major cereal crops, pearl millet is most tolerant of extreme temperatures and drought. (croptrust.org)
In the Sahel region of Africa, for example, farmers often grow pearl millet instead of sorghum during the hottest summer months. (croptrust.org)
The team also determined that this suppression is much less pronounced in domesticated grasses such as maize and millet than in wild varieties. (zmescience.com)
If you promote more of the maize at the expense of the drought-tolerant crops like finger millet or cassava, then you are not helping these farmers adapt to climate (change)," Recha said. (trust.org)
The national average for bajra (small millet) amounts to 700-1,000 kg/ha with good rains, but is only half this number with poor rains and can be zero in a drought year. (openedition.org)
The concept has been successful in helping farmers to produce grains including maize, sorghum and millet, while it also encourages the rotation of legumes such as beans, ground nuts or cowpeas. (zimbabwesituation.com)
The visitors to the festival also bought seeds and other processed farm produce such dried vegetables, ground sorghum and millet meal. (viacampesina.org)

Farmers in Karamoja typically cultivate small plots of 2 acres (1 hectare) or less and raise crops such as sorghum, maize, beans, and vegetables primarily for their own consumption, said Catherine Nakalembe, a geographical scientist at the University of Maryland and the NASA Harvest Africa Lead. (nasa.gov)
GCP supported 25 projects to discover and develop markers for genes that control traits that enable key crops, including bean and chickpea, to tolerate drought and poor soils and resist pests and diseases. (generationcp.org)
He is a senior research scientist and program director at the University of Georgia, and was formerly Director of Research at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Director of the Genetic Resources Program and of the Applied Biotechnology Center at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) . (generationcp.org)
Along with the staple crops there are also soybeans, sorghum, sunflowers, and mung beans - a crop that is traditionally grown in northern NSW. (abc.net.au)
It can still produce a reliable harvest if there are heat waves up to 42°C. Because of that tolerance, it can take the place of crops like wheat, rice and maize in hotter, drier climates. (croptrust.org)
By limiting the growth of their roots, grassy crops conserve soil water during drought. (zmescience.com)
Artificial selection or agricultural plants such as maize or other grassy crops aimed at tailoring crown roots' response to drought could improve these plants' productivity and preserve ground-water resources. (zmescience.com)
Global warming has led to shifts in rainfall, Recha said, meaning farmers should have the opportunity to grow a range of crops, such as sorghum, cassava or sweet potato, which are more drought-tolerant than the staple maize. (trust.org)
Some crops and pastures such as ryegrass and maize are easy to make into silage while legumes and summer grasses including forage sorghum require ideal drying conditions to get a good result. (thedairysite.com)
Several farmers have ditched drought-resistant crops such as jowar (sorghum) and chana (chickpea) for water-intensive cash crops such as sugarcane. (org.in)
The crops so irrigated are mostly vegetables and small plots of maize meant for early harvest, just before the onset of the rains. (lu.se)

Genetic Analysis of Recombinant Inbred Lines For Sorghum Bicolor x Perennial S. Propinquum. (usda.gov)
reported that the extra CO 2 enhanced the yield of Sorghum bicolor by 15% under low soil moisture conditions. (co2science.org)
Jagtap V., Bhargava S., Variation in the antioxidant metabolism of drought tolerant and drought susceptible varieties of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench. (afs-journal.org)

Genetically variable populations from the 11-13th generations compared in trials at six sites over three years with commercial forage sorghum hybrids had similar green yields and slightly lower dry yields. (eurekamag.com)

Toward this end, we combined reductionist, transitional and ecological approaches, applied to the staple cereal crop sorghum to identify key root-associated microbes that robustly affect drought-stressed plant phenotypes. (nature.com)
BUCHAREST (Romania), November 30 (SeeNews) - Romania's 2007 crop of cereals, sunflowerseeds, soybean and sugar beet is below expectations after a severe drought hit the country this year, the Agriculture Ministry said on Friday. (seenews.com)
The farmers harvested 96% of the forecasted crop of maize and sorghum, 66% of the forecasted crop of soybean and 97% of the sugar beet, the ministry said in the statement. (seenews.com)
And when she travels to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, to sell her crop, she can't find buyers for the sorghum. (iol.co.za)
Maize and Drought-Tolerant Staple Crop Value Chain Kenya's maize subsector is approaching a critical time when input supply characteristics, land reform, availability of supporting factors of production, and market price dynamics will define the competitiveness of the industry in the mid to long term. (who.int)
South Africa may grant emergency aid to farmers in Gauteng province due to a severe drought that is scorching grazing pastures and threatening the key maize crop, a provincial official said on Saturday. (voanews.com)
In the case of crop-reliant families, FAO aims to distribute seeds of drought-tolerant early-maturing varieties of sorghum, maize, cowpea and protein-rich mung bean and nutrient-dense vegetables, and arrange for pre-planting land-ploughing services and access to irrigation as well as training on good agricultural practices. (fao.org)
On top of these challenges, drought often causes crop failures. (nasa.gov)
However, drought and flooding have impacted crop development and will result in reduced yields in south-western Angola, northern Namibia, southern Malawi and Mozambique. (agroportal.pt)
Cowpeas were part of Spanish missionary gardens in the Southwest, and because of their drought and heat tolerance, they quickly became a favorite crop within O'odham fields. (nativeseeds.org)
This suggests to us that plant breeding has unintentionally affected these crop plants' abilities to cope with drought," Dinneny said. (zmescience.com)
In Rwanda and Tanzania, where the "Patient Procurement Platform" - so-called due to the long-term commitment required from producers and buyers - began in December, maize was the main crop covered by the contracts. (trust.org)
They said food production was most likely to be affected as area to be planted to maize, the staple food crop in the country, would fall. (viacampesina.org)
Drought stress adversely affects crop yield throughout the world. (bvsalud.org)

In 2011, a severe drought contributed to a famine outbreak in Somalia that saw 260 000 people perish from starvation - most of them before an official famine declaration was made. (fao.org)
The rural Karamoja region in northeastern Uganda is facing a severe drought that directly affects the population's food supplies and livelihoods. (nasa.gov)
In Guatemala , a severe drought has contributed to the loss of close to 80 percent of the maize harvest and devastated coffee plantations. (oxfamamerica.org)

Led by Pooran, researchers from India, Ethiopia and Kenya worked together not only to develop improved, drought-tolerant chickpeas that would thrive in semiarid conditions, but also to ensure these varieties would be growing in farmers' fields across Africa within a decade. (generationcp.org)
These farmers have been and are still growing a wide range of traditional seed varieties and Open Pollinated Varieties (OPVs) (maize, sorghum, millets, groundnuts and other pulses) which have tied their communities together helping to preserve their culture and ensure food security and food sovereignty. (viacampesina.org)

Cassava can thrive despite poor soil conditions, drought and high heat. (croptrust.org)
GRM 2013: Implementing MARS Project for drought tolerance and the Cassava Bre. (slideshare.net)

Drought-hardy grains such as sorghum are "unprofitable" and hard work, complains the 56-year-old, who farms two hectares (five acres) of land in Ezimnyama, a village near the Botswana border. (iol.co.za)
Such grains grow much better in particularly drought-prone areas, and planting them there is a way to shore up the country's food security, he said. (iol.co.za)
But farmers have balked at switching, he said, because they fear they will have to eat the sorghum and other small grains they grow, and they prefer not to do that. (iol.co.za)
Babbage said his farmer's union was working with the meteorological officials, the Ministry of Local Government and government agricultural support organisation AGRITEX to find ways to cut drought risks and get small-scale farmers to change their minds about planting small grains. (iol.co.za)
Seed companies "must avail adequate small grain seed for drought-prone areas so that farmers have no excuses not to plant small grains," he said. (iol.co.za)
Shiri, the agriculture minister, said farmers who switch to growing and eating maize alternatives could see health benefits - and that such grains were, until recently, staple foods in Zimbabwe. (iol.co.za)
Joseph Katete, a spokesman for the Grain Marketing Board, said the offer to farmers to swap small grains harvested for maize would not seriously impact the board's bottom line, even if small grains were harder to sell. (iol.co.za)
Climatic conditions such as drought, high temperatures, and pre-harvest rainfalls promote the occurrence of mycotoxins in grains. (frontiersin.org)
The 81-year-old farmer from Sonwati village in Latur district says that in 1972, when the state witnessed one of its worst droughts ever, the shortage was of food grains and not water. (org.in)

The plants are drought tolerant and grow well on relatively poor soils. (fao.org)
It has a long season of use (spring-autumn) and is tolerant of drought. (eurekamag.com)
Türkan I., Bor M., Özdemir F., Koca H., Differential responses of lipid peroxidation and antioxidants in the leaves of drought-tolerant P. acutifolius Gray and drought-sensitive P. vulgaris L. subjected to polyethylene glycol mediated water stress, Plant Sci. (afs-journal.org)

The Sahel's farmers have been largely cleared of blame for the 19th century's Sahel droughts. (wikipedia.org)
As climate change brings more frequent and harsh droughts, maize is becoming harder to grow in many parts of Zimbabwe - but it is still what people want to eat and many farmers want to plant, which makes shifting away from it a challenge. (iol.co.za)
So farmers continue trying to grow maize, though in most cases the success rate has been very low," he said. (iol.co.za)
Winston Babbage, commodities vice president for the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union, said the country's large-scale farmers, for instance, who have better access to irrigation, might be able to grow enough maize to support the Grain Marketing Board's offer let small-scale farmers swap their sorghum harvests for maize. (iol.co.za)
Last year 2014, the prices of commercial seeds, mainly maize, increased beyond the reach of most smallholder farmers. (viacampesina.org)
This prediction came true and most farmers who relied and planted commercial seeds did not harvest enough as a result the drought and reduced area planted. (viacampesina.org)

The current research interest include molecular dissection of economic traits such : (1) Nitrogen use efficiency in maize, (2) Disease resistance in sorghum and maize, (3) drought tolerance in wheat, and (4) Salt tolerance in halophytes. (omicsonline.org)

However, not all plants have the same kinds of roots - the study examined grasses, a family which include key species of plants including maize, sorghum and sugarcane. (zmescience.com)

GRM 2011: Development and evaluation of drought-adapted sorghum germplasm for. (slideshare.net)

A new study of plant roots found that grasses employ a type of "economic austerity" when confronted with drought conditions: the plants limit their root systems' growth to preserve water in the soil. (zmescience.com)
Fu J., Huang B., Involvement of antioxidants and lipid peroxidation in the adaptation of two cool-season grasses to localized drought stress, Environ. (afs-journal.org)

After receiving training on Pfumvudza from FfF she implemented the practices and managed to harvest enough maize to feed herself and her grandchildren for a whole year. (zimbabwesituation.com)

This dependence makes the economy vulnerable to international price fluctuations and poor harvests caused by drought and flooding. (cp-pc.ca)

Inconsistent rainfall has forced Zimbabwe's government to import maize from Malawi, South Africa and Zambia in previous drought years - though region-wide drought has hit production there as well. (iol.co.za)
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the researchers found food security will be the overarching challenge, with dangers from droughts, flooding, and shifts in rainfall. (preventionweb.net)

Scientists can identify individual genes and explore which ones are responsible for, or contribute to, valuable characteristics such as tolerance to drought or poor soils, or resistance to pests or diseases. (generationcp.org)
Some simple traits such as flower colour are controlled by one gene, but more complex traits such as drought tolerance are controlled by multiple genes. (generationcp.org)
Transgenic and non-transgenic assist us in our better understanding of the drought-responsive mechanism and its effect on different plant growth traits, so, in this way, we would be able to explore drought tolerance mechanism and this will open the doors for the identification of drought-related genes. (bvsalud.org)

With maize the region's staple diet, the only buyers for alternatives are a minority of health-conscious eaters, she said. (iol.co.za)
Now a third season of drought driven by La Niña is raising concerns that a large-scale hunger crisis could break out if the region's food producing rural communities do not receive adequate assistance timed to the necessities of upcoming agricultural seasons. (fao.org)

Elevated CO 2 increases sorghum biomass under drought conditions. (co2science.org)

Now, following three years of drought and poverty, those faces are back. (beliefnet.com)

The effect of drought on crown root development was poorly documented up to now, so researchers had no way of estimating how the plants would react to a hotter and drier climate. (zmescience.com)
Root and shoot factors contribute to the effect of drought on photosynthesis and growth of the C 4 grass Panicum coloratum at elevated CO 2 partial pressures. (co2science.org)

GRM 2013: Improving sorghum productivity in semi-arid environments of Mali th. (slideshare.net)
At the heart of the current drought is the changing farming pattern in the semi-arid Marathwada region in the past few decades. (org.in)

Rome/Nairobi- Over $138 million in urgent funding is needed to assist 1.5 million vulnerable people in rural communities in the Horn of Africa whose fields and pastures have been hard hit by an extended drought, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said today, as it released a comprehensive response plan calling for a range of support for agriculture in the region. (fao.org)

FAO's Horn of Africa Drought Response Plan calls for over $138 million to help rural communities withstand this latest threat - with $130 million of that total urgently needed by the end of February to provide time-critical assistance to highly-vulnerable, agriculture-reliant communities in the three most impacted countries. (fao.org)
In 2017, however, potential drought-associated famines in four countries in the greater Horn of Africa region were averted thanks to a concerted international push to act early and that prioritized helping rural communities cope with stresses before they spiralled into food crises. (fao.org)

However, the earlier findings by Mupunga (2013) , who studied the natural contamination of peanuts, peanut butter, and sorghum with AFs in Botswana, reported that no food commodities in Botswana were contaminated. (frontiersin.org)

Whitton sunflower grower Craig Kefford used the increased water allocation this season to expand his summer cropping program to include cotton, rice, and maize. (abc.net.au)
The NSW Department of Industries estimates 44,000 hectares of rice, 39,000 hectares of cotton, and 5,000 hectares of maize has been planted in the Riverina this season. (abc.net.au)
Reddy P.C., Vajranabhaiah S.N., Drought induced lipid peroxidation: defensive mechanism in upland rice ( Oryza sativa L.) seeds during germination, Adv. Plant Sci. (afs-journal.org)

Contamination of staple food sources such as maize and sorghum means that many populations are at risk of being poisoned by mycotoxins. (frontiersin.org)

Drought is a major abiotic stress limiting agricultural productivity. (nature.com)
Nakalembe, C. (2018) Characterizing agricultural drought in the Karamoja subregion of Uganda with meteorological and satellite-based indices . (nasa.gov)

In Kenya, the current drought has killed nearly 2.5 million livestock and left 2.4 million people hungry, including hundreds of thousands of children severely malnourished. (oxfamamerica.org)

2017 ). Drought accounts for about 30% of the total worlds cultivable land area. (researchsquare.com)

In the best cases (Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh) a good year's jowar (sorghum) reaches 1,100 to 1,500 kg/ha versus India's national average of 950 kg/ha. (openedition.org)
On a scorching hot April afternoon, standing under a mango tree on his 5.7-hectare (ha) farm, Ramvithal Valse declares, "This year's drought is unprecedented. (org.in)

Fifty-three Arabidopsis -associated bacteria were applied to sorghum seeds and their effect on root growth was monitored. (nature.com)
They sure are drought hardy," wrote James in a letter to Native Seeds/SEARCH in 1985. (nativeseeds.org)
As for hybrid seeds (at that time for maize and sorghum) they must be replaced every year. (openedition.org)

A large-scale, drought-induced famine occurred in Africa's Sahel region and many parts of the neighbouring Sénégal River Area from February to August 2010. (wikipedia.org)
Somalia is facing its worst drought on record, and famine is expected to unfold in two of its districts: Baidoa and Burhakaba. (oxfamamerica.org)

In parallel, we performed a field trial wherein sorghum was evaluated across drought conditions. (nature.com)
Drought conditions are still ongoing in southern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania. (agroportal.pt)
In West Africa , the season's first maize planting started in the bi-seasonal parts of the region under generally favourable agroclimatic conditions. (agroportal.pt)
Spoilage will be fastest during warm conditions with high quality silage such as maize or ryegrass. (thedairysite.com)
Valse echoes Purandare's sentiment when he says that the current situation is a result of drought-like conditions that have been prevailing in the region for the past four years. (org.in)
Therefore, in the current study, we carry out a comparative analysis to evaluate the morphological, physiological biochemical and molecular parameters in transgenic plants containing GaUSP-1, GaUSP-2 and GaZinc Finger genes under different drought stress conditions. (bvsalud.org)

The Western donor nations once theorised that the drought in the Sahel primarily was caused by humans over-using natural resources in the region through overgrazing, deforestation and poor land management. (wikipedia.org)

Tschaplinski T.J. Tuskan G.A., Gebre G.M., Todd D.E., Drought resistance of two hybrid Populus clones grown in a large-scale plantation, Tree Physiol. (afs-journal.org)

A Zimbabwean subsistence farmer holds a stunted maize cob in his drought-hit field outside Harare, Jan. 20, 2016. (trust.org)

Maize does better: now 25% irrigated versus 13% until 1964, with a present average yield of 2,000-2,400 kg/ha. (openedition.org)

Schwanz P., Polle A., Differential stress responses of antioxidative systems to drought in pendunculate oak ( Quercus robur ) and maritime pine ( Pinus pinaster ) grown under high CO 2 concentrations, J. Exp. (afs-journal.org)

The Arbore practice pastoralism, sorghum cultivation, seasonal fishing and hunting and engage in a wide regional network of bond friendship for the exchange of gifts. (101lasttribes.com)

Switching Zimbabwe to more drought-hardy staples will take a wholesale rethink of the country's systems, from seed sales to grain purchasing systems, officials say. (iol.co.za)
maize (whole grain, flour and polenta). (agriculture.gov.au)

Early season drought affects Haiti. (agroportal.pt)

Global dimming, the blocking of sunlight by man-made particulates, has been identified as one culprit for a decades-long drought across sub-Saharan Africa. (wikipedia.org)
The elderly, nursing mothers and the very young in the drought areas are already very vulnerable," said Francis Stephanos, the East Africa director of Lutheran World Relief. (beliefnet.com)

FAO's drought response plan seeks to target support to 1.5 million of the most at-risk rural populations in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. (fao.org)

It is making extreme weather such as droughts, cyclones, and floods - which have increased five-fold over the past 50 years - more frequent and more deadly. (oxfamamerica.org)
In particular, those dependent on the nation's agriculture-based economy are put at risk during the frequent periods of drought. (beliefnet.com)

Failed harvest: this Ghanaian farmer's maize ears are undersized and poorly developed due to drought. (generationcp.org)

For decades, Malawi has experienced droughts, made worse by the effects of El Niño. (pewtrusts.org)

Gauteng includes the economic-hub of Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria but it also has important farming communities which supply the urban areas with food, including maize, sorghum, chicken and beef. (voanews.com)
The drought could have a 'serious impact' on food prices and ultimately knock growth, employment and revenues in Africa's most advanced economy, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said last week. (voanews.com)
Implementing Pfumvudza transformed Gogo Matilda's household from one that was vulnerable and food-insecure, to one that is food secure and able to produce its own maize. (zimbabwesituation.com)
Most parts of Zimbabwe were declared by the drought stricken, requiring food assistance. (viacampesina.org)

During drought stress, plants colonized by Arthrobacter had reduced growth and leaf water content. (nature.com)
The impact of the drought on plants in Moldova and parts of Ukraine and Romania is illustrated by this pair of images. (nasa.gov)
Seeing this, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University published a paper aiming to understand how agriculturally valuable plants react to drought. (zmescience.com)
In places with extreme heat and drought, like deserts, plants open their stomata only at night, when CO2 can enter. (cid-inc.com)

After harvesting in March this year I sold 15 buckets of maize in Bulawayo but I failed to sell one bucket of sorghum. (iol.co.za)
The picture is not much different in other parts of Maharashtra that has more than 60 per cent villages under drought this year. (org.in)

A little girl tucks into sorghum porridge in Mali. (generationcp.org)

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