Sentences with phrase «main crop»

Cover crops are grown in the months between main crops when the soil would otherwise be bare.

Main crops appear to have been corn for food and cotton for other uses.

Group A-Deliverable at a premium of $ 160 / ton (including main crops of Ghana, Lome, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone).

However, hop varieties remain the company's main crop to this day.

Sugar cane was the main crop, and Africans and Indians were the principal laborers.

The main crop is coffee (about 9 percent of the country's area), produced on 20 000 coffee farms and employing some 134 000 people.

FiBL - experiments have also shown that cover crops do not compete with the main crops for nutrients or water.

101 Catch crops (intercrops) are sown after the harvest of the main crop in order to capture the nutrients and to provide soil cover.

They can also be sown between the main crop.

GROW: Lake County is a thriving agricultural area with winegrapes, pears and walnuts as the three main crops.

«The worry is that a lot of beans that have not been sold have stockpiled and now are going to be mixed in with the main crop to get rid of them,» George said.

Growers will get a minimum 1,100 CFA francs ($ 1.86) a kilogram (2.2 pounds) for beans for the main crop starting in October, according to Abdourahmane Cisse, the country's budget minister.

The main crop runs from October to March.

Researchers hope to wipe out aflatoxin, a toxic fungus that can grow on the country's main crop.

Two of the main crop diseases identified as potential bio-weapons are wheat stem rust and rice blast.

* In Australia, GE ingredients in food are derived from four main crops: imported corn (or maize) and soy; and local and imported canola and cottonseed products.

This grain comes from Africa and Asia and was very popular in those areas as it was one of the main crops there nearly 10,000 years ago.

While alfalfa is still the main crop for many farmers in northern Nevada, some are experimenting with grapes, too.

The town itself is little more than a farmer's hub, but it is a pleasing, rice - filled valley where, unlike Pai, the main crop remains rice rather than tourists.

Nusa Lembongan due to its incompatible soil type can not cultivate rice, instead the main crop is seaweed which is farmed in beautifully colors and interesting patches, many hillside resorts overlook these incredible sights.

Sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cacao, and rubber are the area's main crops.

The main crop is seaweed that creates a patchwork coastline just underneath the clear waters that are calm and beautiful.

They then zeroed in on the main crop - producing areas, and looked at how rainfall and seasonal temperatures have evolved since 1980.

When you live on a dairy farm, one of your main crops is usually field corn.