The settlement was quite primitive and Logan embarked on a building program, and on planting maize.

I would not plant maize.

Then it compared it to a nearby cleared area of former rainforest, where large scale farms had planted maize.

They planted maize (corn), beans, squash and various vegetables as part of their diet.

They are traditionally farmers, mainly planting maize, beans and Cassava as food crops.

A mostly rainless decade has discouraged most farmers from planting maize, the staple crop, much less the cotton that once underpinned the local economy.

She had planted maize by the creek, and potatoes again, and more paddock was cleared.

They planted maize, squash, pumpkins, beans, and potatoes.

Year after year they plant nutritionally poor maize on poor quality soil.

If we plant maize and eucalyptus in dry areas, we should not then be surprised when damage by fire and drought is the result.