tropical crop

collocation in English

meaningsoftropicalandcrop

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tropical
adjective
uk
/ˈtrɒp.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtrɑː.pɪ.kəl/
geography,environment
from or relating to the area between the ...
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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 oftropicalandcropfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The text aims at reviewing the contemporary methods used to assess patterns of genetic diversity, as well as reviewing actual patterns of diversity within various exemplartropicalcropplants.
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It is because in world terms sugar is atropicalcrop.
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Cocoa prices had always been volatile, but exports of thistropicalcropnormally provided about half of the country's foreign currency earnings.
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Today the garden contain about 1400 species, including approximately 290 crop species outdoors and 160tropicalcropspecies in the greenhouse.
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In contrast, tropical crops are often sown in hot, drying conditions using unsophisticated sowing techniques.
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Many of these risk factors are likely to be higher for tropical crops grown in developing countries than for temperate crops grown in richer nations.
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There follow eight chapters in a logical sequence, describing aspects of the agricultural environment, farming systems, plantation crops and agroforestry, together with a conspectus of tropical crops and their improvement.
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The author faced an almost impossible task in attempting to consider all the main diseases of the whole range of tropical crops in a mere 200 pages.
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The book can be highly recommended for anyone with an interest in nutritionally significant tropical crops, and for any library catering for a readership with broad interests in this area.
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Nitrogen fixation in tropical cropping systems.
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Cocoa, vanilla, melon, passion fruit, all these tropical crops are entirely dependent on pollinating bees for their production of fruit and seeds.
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The large greenhouse contains tropical crops, exhibition and event space, and room for overwintering plants.
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It is one of the most important and rapidly expanding tropical crops, so lucrative because it is used in many diverse products throughout the world.
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The tierra caliente (hot land), below 3300ftm 0, is the zone of tropical crops such as bananas.
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Some other species are important pollinators of tropical crops such as cacao.
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Marker-assisted breeding is revolutionizing the improvement of temperate field crops and will have similar impacts on breeding of tropical crops.
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The warm lowlands are conducive to palay production and other tropical crops.
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Seventy percent (70%) of its total land area is being farmed and suited for all kinds of tropical crops.
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The most profitable tropical crops are coffee and sugarcane.
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