Sentences with phrase «less valuable crops»

New sugarcane fields in Brazil nearly always replace pasture land or less valuable crops and are concentrated around production facilities in the developed southeastern region, far from the Amazon.

His plan was to put the most valuable crops in the center of the farm and the less valuable crops — and the chile plants — on the perimeter of the farm.

Not exact matches

Bee populations change every year because when crops are more valuable, farmers will use more land for growing crops, but when crops are less valuable, farmers will leave more land to its natural state, Whitworth said.

Roundup also destroys valuable organic compounds in soil, so crops grown on that soil are less nutritious.