They and other planters were eager to find crops for the uplands that could supplement their cultivation of rice.
If chocolate prices were to collapse again, as they did in the early 1990's, Asante farmers might have to find new crops or new forms of livelihood.
Cotton is one of the highest found crops at the site .
"It is hard to find alternative crops and alternative employment in the sugar growing areas," she said in an interview here.
Others would argue that the farmers in Madagascar need to find new crops to grow, and that fake vanilla could force them to do it.
She would end the drug trade by working with the poor to find substitute crops for poppies.
Britain should stop giving 'piffling' sums of aid to Latin American countries and help them find alternative crops.
The mountainous inland Young found 'all poor and miserable'; bad crops, bad fallows, and wretched towns.
We all accept the need to support farming in rural communities, but we have to find different crops and different ways of supporting them in the future.
The trick, he figured, was to find crops that would thrive in his inexperienced care.