the maize weevil(pictured) is a serious pest of maize in the United States, and also infests standing crops and cereals in all tropical areas of the world?
the famine of 1873–74 in Bihar, India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons of grain was left unused at the end of the relief efforts?
species in the fungal genus Ceratobasidium cause economically important plant diseases such as sharp eyespot of cereals and black rot of coffee?
Question 2: Other grains that are important in some places, but that have little production globally (and are not included in ________ statistics), include:
Question 4: In North America, farmers commonly deliver their newly harvested grain to a ________, a large storage facility that consolidates the crops of many farmers.
Question 5: In developing countries, a variety of harvesting methods are in use,depending on the cost of labor, from combines to hand tools such as the ________ or cradle.
Question 9: In some developing nations, grain in the form of rice, wheat, or ________ (in American terminology, corn) constitutes a majority of daily sustenance.
Question 10: However, when refined by the removal of the bran and germ, the remaining endocarp is mostly ________ and lacks the majority of the other nutrients.
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