food crop
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffoodandcrop
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food
noun[C or U]
uk/fuːd/us/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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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 offoodandcropfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffood crop
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Foodcropfarmers can easily respond to price incentives in the short run by expanding the land area.
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Since then, it has revived to a limited extent as a localfoodcrop, but the main pulse is cowpeas.
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Unlike the case of tree planting, however, fallowing offoodcropfields does not require labor effort and, hence, tends to weaken land rights.
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The analysis concentrated on consequences for maize production because maize is the dominantfoodcropin the area.
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We over-sampledfoodcropfields for the collection of detailed production data.
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Thus, many of them enlarged theirfoodcropfields or inter-cropped food crops in their coffee and cocoa fields.
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Neither was the productivity of cocoa andfoodcropcultivation considered separately.
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Thefoodcrop(bean) was intercropped between the fallow shrubs to ensure that the farmer benefited from the land in terms of the bean yields.
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As the staplefoodcrop, sorghum has to have an acceptable taste.
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We perform a similar analysis forfoodcropproduction on young cocoa and pure crop fields.
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With respect to thefoodcropsector, its growing importance severely affected deforestation compared with cocoa and coffee.
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It can tolerate low-fertility soils and low rainfall and is the preferredfoodcropof many indigenous people.
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One reasonfoodcropproduction did not expand more was slow growth in the rural labour force.
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Without doubt the book is essential reading for those seriously interested in biological controls in any majorfoodcropfrom wheat to tomatoes, citrus fruits to rice.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, maize, beans and coffee trading remained officially confined to state-controlled marketing institutions, except forfoodcropsales at the local market.
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Nonetheless, withfoodcropfarming being the major occupation, there are obvious monetary constraints in meeting both household food supply and the purchase of modern farm inputs.
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