traditional crop

collocation in English

meaningsoftraditionalandcrop

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traditional
adjective
uk
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us
/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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crop
noun
uk
/krɒp/us
/krɑːp/
(the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in ...
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(Definition oftraditionalandcropfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As a result of such changes,traditionalcropvarieties may no longer be adapted to growing conditions.
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These recommendations for increases in funding are partnered by an implicit suggestion that these types of programs replacetraditionalcropsubsidies.
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What progress is being made with his international partners in finding alternative crops to thetraditionalcropin such countries, the poppy?
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I know that oats is thetraditionalcropand that oats straw has played a wonderful part in cattle production.
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I should like to ask him about atraditionalcropwhich appears to have a bright future.
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Species are lost because of overgrazing of pastures, undergrazing of marginal land, the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, and the loss oftraditionalcroprotations.
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He added the turnip and the clover to thetraditionalcroprotation and directed it to cover four individual fields.
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Wheat is the mosttraditionalcrop, with the importance of barley increasing since the 1960s.
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Oca is a component oftraditionalcroprotations and is usually planted in a field directly after the potato harvest.
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To supply the foreign markets, the cartels expanded the cultivation to areas where coca was not atraditionalcrop.
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Conversion oftraditionalcroplands to cattle pasture is also eliminating secondary blue iguana habitat.
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The introduction of foreign germplasm into crops has been achieved bytraditionalcropbreeders by artificially overcoming fertility barriers.
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The expanded vegetable and other labour-intensive crops would replace part of the traditional crops as a source of cash income.
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An important question, not specifically addressed in the action plan, is 'why local farmers and people stop growing and using diverse traditional crops and plants'?
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Model plants are facilitating the genetic characterization and comparative mapping of a number of traditional crops.
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Traditional cropping systems with pigeonpea and their improvement.
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Farmers' reasons for not changing from traditional cropping systems are as diverse as the farmers themselves.
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