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CORN. In its most comprehensive sense, this term signifies every sort of grain, as well as peas and beans, this is its meaning in the memorandum usually contained in policies of insurance. But it does not include rice. 1 Park. Ins. 112; Marsh. Ins. 223, note; Stev. on Av. part 4, art. 2; Ben. on Av. eh. 10; 1 Marsh. Ins. 223; Park on Ins. 112; Wesk. Ins. 145. Vide Com. Dig. Biens, G 1.

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Girou de Buzareingues crossed three varieties of gourd, which like the maize has separated sexes, and he asserts that their mutual fertilisation is by so much the less easy as their differences are greater.
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You must drink a little hippocras and eat this leavened cake of maize, which we have baked for you.
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For maize + bean intercropping, these indices have not been used to find out the economic advantages, resource use efficiency and competition among species of intercropping system.
A review on maize-legume intercropping for enhancing the productivity and soil fertility for sustainable agriculture in India
Biofortified vitamin A "orange" maize can help address the adverse health effects of vitamin A deficiency.
Orange maize in Zambia: crop development and delivery experience
The government is planning to contract 10,000 farmers in Bungoma, Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia counties to increase maize production.
State to contract 10,000 farmers to grow maize
By GERALD ANDAEThe Treasury has cut the budget for buying maize for the Strategic Food Reserve (SFR) by S billion or 70 per cent, a reduction that will hurt replenishing of the grains reservoir next year.
Treasury's 70pc maize budget cut signals food reserve deficit
The Maize Growers, Processors and Markets Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) says that it will ensure adequate supply of maize to support market demands in 2018.
Maize farmers promise adequate supplies in 2018
ISLAMABAD -- Parliamentary Secretary for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs Statistic and Privatization Rana Muhammad Afzal on Tuesday informed the National Assembly that the government is not considering to abolish import duty on maize.
No intention to abolish import duty on maize: NA told
Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was used in this study to perform a quantitative elemental analysis in order to compare the inorganic nutrients in commercial white and noncommercial yellow maize flours.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INORGANIC NUTRIENTS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF ZEA MAYS L. USING INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY
NYT Syndicate Genome sequences from nearly 2,000-year-old cobs of maize (corn) found in a Utah cave paint a portrait of the crop at the dawn of its adaptation to the highlands of the US southwest.
Ancient genomes show how maize adapted to life at high altitudes
Scientists summarize research on supporting more productive, sustainable, and nutritionally valuable maize cultivation, particularly for smallholders in the developing world.
Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Maize; Volume 1: From Improved Varieties to Local Applications
To explore the evolution of maize landraces in Southwestern China, 30 maize landrace populations were examined to characterize the B chromosomes (Bs).
Evolution of Maize Landraces in Southwestern China: Evidence from B Chromosomes

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