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The rice crop is already in.
Corn is an important crop in the United States.
Rather than doing any good, the rain did a great deal of harm to the crop.
The land is out of crop this year.
The frost rendered the orange crop worthless.
Those scientists are the cream of the crop.
It was exceptionally cold last summer, and the rice crop was the worst in 10 years.
A dry spell accounts for the poor crop.
We've had a poor crop due to lack of water.
The rice crop is poor this year.
The storm did great harm to the crop.
The storm caused much damage to the crop.
Because of the difference in climate, the same crop is not cultivated in the North and East of the country.
We will crop the field with cotton this year.
Farmers suffered crop losses from poor weather.
The chief crop of our country is rice.
There's a fine crop of corn this year.
We have a good crop of tomatoes this year.
The main crop of Japan is rice.
Rice is the chief crop in this area.
News and current affairs
In traditional Western European markets, health officials should brace for a rise in the number of deaths from drug overdoses, as this year's bumper opium crop will lead to higher-purity doses of heroin.
Ethiopian village life has long depended on two crops, one during a short rain in March and April, and the main crop during the long rain in the summer months.
Starving farmers, if unassisted, may return to cultivating a very reliable cash crop: the opium poppy, long a staple of the warlord economy.
If water can be managed through irrigation, this could be combined with multi-cropping (multiple harvests per year) to produce a crop during the dry season.
Genetic engineering can be dated from man's recognition that animals and crop plants can be selected and bred to enhance desired characteristics.
All crop plants have relatives somewhere, and some gene flow commonly occurs if the two populations are grown close together.
Gene flow from wild relatives to crop plants may even be encouraged by subsistence farmers to maintain the broad genetic base of the varieties that they plant using seed harvested from an earlier crop.
Such gene flow does not occur when farmers buy their seeds from seed producers, of course, but in that case gene flow in the other direction is still possible, with genes from the cultivated crop ending up in the wild relative.
That is most likely if genes from the crop confer a selective advantage on the recipient, an occurrence that is uncommon with gene-splicing, where most often the added gene places the recipient at a natural di sadvantage.
Land conversion for grazing (and construction), together with crop tillage, has also caused soil erosion at 15 times its natural rate.
It is also an inefficient way of generating food; up to 30 crop calories are needed to produce one meat calorie.
Crop eradication will not work over the long term if there is no legal economy to replace drugs.
The ability of tumor cells to adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, including toxic chemicals, is similar to the evolutionary capacities demonstrated by crop pests and other invasive species.
But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop shortages and food-price volatility.
Beyond these financial instruments, we need to improve on the status quo by investing in the research and development needed to modernize agriculture and reduce the risk of crop failures.
Moreover, democracy alone will not convert the current crop of extremist jihadis to peaceful change.
This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children.
His land costs are low. So are his labor costs, since he relies on family and friends to weed and pick the crop.
The farmer and the forest worker could become more involved in the market, the mine engineer could begin to take an interest in crop fields, the banker in plant shares, etc.
Instead, most now apply insecticides only when infestation exceeds some threshold level, with the goal of producing a sustainable and satisfactory crop.
These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.