Girma Belachew, a grain trader in the Mesalemiya area, the major grain market in Addis Ababa, said that the reason for the price decline on some of the grains could be the end of the rainy season. And better access to loans provided by micro-finance institutions enable farmers to sell agricultural products for better prices," Sufian said. Though the prices of some cereals were going down, there are others whose price has increased. Sufian said the construction of roads enables farmers to...

What do you think has happened to the cost of mealie pap for malnourished Africans? There are those who think corn to fuel is not only earth unfriendly, it is immoral. Converting corn to fuel has raised the price of food for all of us, including our poor. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, re-transmitting, or re-purposing of any copyright-protected material. More Everybody's Column Stories. The information you receive online from The Buffalo News is protected by the...

The labyrinth, an annual benefit for the Lynden FFA, spans 14 acres of 10-foot high corn stalks. It was their first time coming to the maze, a fundraising project that is open on weekends through the end of September. The maze s intricate design, which includes several crafty tulipshaped loops and even an enormous FFA, kept many patrons turned around as the maze went into its second weekend. It s really hard to supervise 14 acres of corn. After the event, the corn is used for cattle feed....

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And as an offshoot of the farmers' agreement, area residents will be able to buy the same food as the school via the school Web site, possibly as early as late September. School lunches have been a focal point for years, following research that showed that what children eat affects their learning and their future health. Public schools have tried to make their breakfast and lunch offerings more healthy by eliminating fried foods and sweet or fatty treats and including whole-grain products,...

With two quick sweeps of his hand, he skims two kernels of corn from the tin can tied to his waist and aims them downward in an arc off the back of the blade. Garcia, 68, is the last man in the village of San Miguel near Mexico's Pacific Coast to plant corn like this--as the Aztecs did and the Mayans before them and the Olmecs before that--in defiance of the globalized economics and mass-production technologies that are relegating this once-common pastoral scene to the corners of old Diego...