"crop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One-third of the water irrigates thirsty crops of low value - alfalfa, cotton, rice - and pasture.
- Eight of every 10 gallons of water in the state is used by farmers, much of it to grow thirsty crops like cotton and rice.
- Sunset colors spilled into the small, winding creek that separated field from forest and provided water for the thirsty crops.
- Now not even a trickle often remains at the river's mouth, the water having been captured by large dams and diverted for thirsty crops and human populations.
- Alfalfa, sold as hay for cattle, is one of California's thirstiest crops.
- Apart from cotton being a thirsty crop, the irrigation canals are very inefficient and much water is wasted.
- "We're in pretty good shape," he said as he happily watched a thunderstorm drench the thirsty crops around his white frame home about 100 miles south of Chicago.
- Leo Hickman: Some crops require water-hungry irrigation systems to thrive, but what is the thirstiest crop of all?
- This was unusual because sugar and kalo are both thirsty crops.
- Deep-rooted plants interspersed with shallow-rooted but thirsty crops could provide water to regions otherwise difficult to irrigate.
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