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D-white-maize Dictionary

White maize

Maize grown mainly for human food, milled into meal

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Plain meaning
Maize grown mainly for human food, milled into meal
How to use it
Grow white maize for millers and marketing boards, and price it against meal demand and board prices.
South African benchmark
South Africa's 2026 white maize forecast was 9.28 million tonnes.
Country notes
White maize is the staple in all four local markets; Namibia produced 69,541 tonnes locally in 2025, covering 31% of supply.
Go and read
M1-U1, M1-U2, M1-U3, C2 Lesson 2.1, C7 Lesson 7.2
Calculate it
T-M1-03 Yield-to-Income Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A001, LIB-A003, LIB-A004, LIB-P-Maize, LIB-P-Maize-IP
See also
Yellow maize, Floor price, Strategic grain reserve
Maize: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedMaize: how the business runsSold bytonnes (t) per hectare1Plant2Grow3Harvest4Dry and store5Sell to GMB, miller or feedZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Maize Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M1 Maize.