alternative crop

collocation in English

meaningsofalternativeandcrop

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alternative
adjective
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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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 ofalternativeandcropfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Recent increases in non-renewable energy costs, however, may mean farmers will consideralternativecrop production systems that require fewer energy inputs, such as forage-based rotations94.
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Information aboutalternativecropsoil and climate requirements, and how they match conditions throughout a region, would assist growers when considering diversification of their operations.
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The ultimate selection and adoption of analternativecropbegins with the identification of crops that are suited to local soil and climate conditions.
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Results of this study showed that safflower could be a suitablealternativecrop.
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Flax is a usefulalternativecropgrown to produce renewable raw materials.
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If it is found that the sunflower or somealternativecropis better for this purpose by all means let us try it.
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These are very poor people who do not use drugs, which became the onlyalternativecropfor them to keep their families alive.
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In this age of biotechnology, the defence of "noalternativecrop" seems particularly strange.
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It was clear that we had to help them find analternativecrop.
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If so, would this not be a wonderfulalternativecropfor our hard-pressed farmers?
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There are still considerable difficulties in growing them successfully, but some day that may be analternativecrop.
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Was there noalternativecropto the sugar beet crop then?
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It is important that the relativities in price of cereals and oilseeds should not inhibit the production of oilseeds as analternativecrop.
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As far as possible, recourse toalternativecrop-protection solutions should be encouraged.
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It is analternativecropto cereal growing and means much to our area.
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Forestry has been mentioned (though not here today) in relation to farming as analternativecrop.
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Moreover, many of them have noalternativecropthat they can grow.
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My fear is that thealternativecropmay prove a great deal more difficult to find in practice than in theory.
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Some of us think that asparagus could be analternativecrop.
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