"crop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Since their introduction by Portuguese traders in the 16th century, maize and cassava have replaced traditional African crops as that continent's most important staple food crops.
- This is because there are too few profitable perennials that can replace crops or that can be adopted at the scale required.
- And the growing demand has led farmers to replace traditional crops like rice with betel palms, causing severe erosion on many hillsides in southern Taiwan.
- Since being introduced by Portuguese in the 16th century, maize and manioc have replaced traditional African crops as the continent's most important staple food crops.
- Bread made from American wheat replaced domestic crops as the cheapest staple food.
- The governors want to replace illicit crops by prodding farmers to eradicate in exchange for subsidies and markets for their products.
- MANY critics see biotechnology as the latest incarnation of corporate agriculture, which is heavily dependent on pesticides and which replaces diverse crops with single varieties.
- When the Army obtained the site in 1950, for a radio transmitting station, fields of antennas replaced cows and crops.
- Agricultural researchers are stepping up efforts to develop heat-resistant and drought-resistant crops that might gradually replace traditional crops if the climate changes.
- Furthermore, cotton has replaced other intensive crops which generate more pollution and greater surpluses.
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