This Draft African Standard (DARS) for Zea mays (maize) production in Africa establishes the principles, criteria, and requirements to ensure environmentally sound, economically viable, and socially responsible production of maize across the continent. It applies to smallholder, medium, and large-scale maize producers and extends to Maize aggregators, processors, and exporters. However, other stakeholders such as, Certification and ecolabeling bodies, Regulatory and policy institutions, Human and Labor rights civil societies, community participation groups, Stakeholders in intra-African and international maize trade may be involved in one way or another
Maize or corn (HS code(s): 1005); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)