I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cash crop (= a crop grown to sell rather than to use )
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The land is used to grow cash crops like cocoa, tea, and coffee.
bumper crop/harvest
cash crop
crop circle
crop rotation
crop top
irrigated land/farms/crops
root crop
spray crops/plants etc (= cover them with liquid to protect them from insects or disease )
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The fruit is sprayed every four weeks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
agricultural
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Sussex geology has imposed an extensive regional pattern on the agricultural crops .
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As an agricultural crop , sunflowers are extremely environmentally friendly.
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In the long term, the loss of genetic diversity will reduce the gene pool available for agricultural crops .
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A serious drought in early 1989 affected agricultural crops , in particular paddy rice and jute.
arable
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Each family is provided with 3.5 ha of land of which 1 ha is used for rain-fed arable crops .
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Modern farming methods, particularly in arable crop fields, were thought to be responsible for the declines.
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Organic manures as nutrient sources-how best to make the most of organic manures and slurry in arable crop rotations.
bumper
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This year, however, it looks like a bumper crop .
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He also contends that Democrats have not produced a bumper crop of congressional candidates this year.
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Picture your garden bed of cucumbers, a very large patch of them, a bumper crop .
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The only thing I see them reaping is a bumper crop of boredom.
current
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The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.
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So far as current commercial crops are concerned, the major GMOs are these: Pesticide-producing maize from Monsanto.
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Another irritation with the current crop of fax modems is that the two parts of the modem don't cooperate with one another.
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The same is true for the current crop of Fender Custom Shop guitars.
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At least it's certainly not the method recommended in the current crop of instructional books and videos relating to the subject.
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Many of the current crop of celebrity exercise videos can actually be bad for you, reports the Consumers Association magazine Which?
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With each successive moult the current crop of fungal parasites is shed along with the old exoskeleton.
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Of the current crop of leading Test batsmen Graeme Hick is the one most at risk to the fast, short-pitched ball.
good
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You have to remember that was the best crop of receivers in the draft since whenever.
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There's a good crop coming through.
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It was a good crop and there was plenty of work.
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Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet?
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Oilseed rape establishment-the critical factor for a good crop .
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He and his neighbours have decided that grass is the best crop to grow.
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Given the benefits of less fertiliser, liming and ploughing costs and better crop yields it is little wonder.
growing
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Time allowed 07:08 Read in studio An inventor has developed a high-flying way of scaring birds away from growing crops .
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They expect the growing season for crops to be short.
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In time, the house might decay, the town disappear, and the whole site become a field growing crops .
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The land, climate, and markets will also play their part in dictating which crops are worth growing .
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For growing crop plants the following conditions must be present: 1.
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Farmland, especially among growing crops , open grassland, steppes, semi-deserts.
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Vast territories were turned over to growing cash crops and extracting minerals for Western interests.
large
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Over the years, mechanisation has replaced hand labour for the larger acreage crops .
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Tempted by the exceptionally strong prices for durum, Arizona farmers planted the largest durum crop since the 1970s.
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The former manor spread over several parishes, with a particular emphasis on sheep farming backed up by a large wheat crop .
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Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops .
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No question, though, about the pick of probably the largest and choicest crop of books in the game's history.
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Only when he has an embarrassingly large crop does he present a bunch to his wife, Pat.
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Protect from birds with nets, and water regularly for a large , juicy crop of strawberries.
main
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Rice remained the main crop , but many farmers diversified.
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The main crops are still potatoes and oats.
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The main crop was maize, and harvests varied with the weather and farming methods.
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Grass was the main crop with sheep, dairy and beef cattle providing the animal enterprises which utilised the grass.
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The main cash crops were coffee, sugar cane and cotton, with cassava the domestic staple.
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The Fens is the most important area in Britain for main crop potatoes.
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The main crops were oats and barley.
new
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As Table 8.6 shows, two further plant attributes are being exploited to produce new crop plants.
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Every year produces a new crop of explanations, a new collection of essays, experiments, and simulations.
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He says he was keen to try a new crop , and dwarf sunflowers ripen in time to harvest in late summer.
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A new crop of mice has already moved in.
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The availability of new-crop beans has resulted in the crush rate being stepped up.
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The population increased: so did rice production: so did the growing of new crops .
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We turn to wild nature for new crops and new drugs, as well as for the beauty that enriches our lives.
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And did I not, at fifty, put out a whole new crop of leaves myself?
other
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Every other crop was grazed off and large quantities of well-rotted farmyard manure were returned before cereals were sown.
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For example, in temperate areas there should be an annual rotation of pasture with other livestock or crops .
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Some villagers, those with capital, established rubber smallholdings, or grew other crops for the market.
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Production of other crops also rose substantially - the important oil-bearing crops saw a rise of 13.8 percent during this period.
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It is still widely used on citrus fruit, soybeans, coffee beans, tobacco, cotton and other crops .
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The study suggested diversification and rotation to boost production of other crops .
■ NOUN
cash
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Potatoes are the only cash crop though even some of these are used for fodder.
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Wine formed the most important cash crop , while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
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Poppies are a major cash crop .
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Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.
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Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop?
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Specific cash crops were profitable only in certain districts.
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Unemployment soared, and many small producers of cash crops went bankrupt.
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Coffee was introduced into the central highlands in the 1840s, and quickly became the most important cash crop .
cereal
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Millet was still the primary cereal crop .
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An even later flight to assess late senescence of the cereal crops might be undertaken this year.
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In the cold, wet northern and western parts of the country it is by far the most reliable cereal crop .
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The biggest losers will be cotton, cattle and cereal crops .
failure
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The short-term cause of overriding local significance were the droughts and crop failures in 1920 and 1921.
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After that, depending on the region, comes the danger of drought and crop failure .
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Global warming will deeply affect poor countries, leading to huge numbers of refugees, crop failures , and extreme weather.
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But buy some reserve seeds in case of crop failures or for successive sowings of fast-maturing varieties such as lettuce and radishes.
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Both the 1987 and 1989 crop failures followed good years.
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Tight supplies worldwide have kept traders focused on any potential crop failure .
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So whether the problem be set aside, crop failure or simple loneliness, the message to farmers is clear.
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Years of drought, crop failure and migration have meant that land is continually withdrawn from active production.
food
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However, this technique was better accepted on poorer lands where food crops were less attractive relative to fuelwood.
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Rice was their basic food and their most important food crop , far ahead of maize, taro or sago.
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In the United States apples and other perennial food crops constituted 16 % of the total value of food crops in 1998.
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Staple food crops are maize, sorghum and wheat.
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This trait can be engineered into food crops .
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The economic consequences for food crops and other plants of the resulting increase in ultraviolet radiation have received less attention.
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Many farmers stopped producing cocoa altogether or switched to food crops , like maize or cassava, that fetched more reliable prices.
plant
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As Table 8.6 shows, two further plant attributes are being exploited to produce new crop plants.
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Research is in progress to modify crop plants genetically to make them yield more than one product.
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Unnatural Farming Few of our crop plants are natural.
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Also on exhibit are a number of interesting crop plants such as sugar cane and banana.
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That crop plants do badly in competition with wild species is to be expected.
production
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Yet these earlier occupants would marvel at the advances in crop production .
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Such measures inevitably incur substantial costs which in turn increases the cost of crop production .
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The amount of new land available for crop production is extremely limited in almost every part of the world.
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There is a herbarium, as well as a laboratory concerned with scientific research and investigation into plants and crop production .
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We can free up meadows for crop production and we are already seeing rainforests stripped out for new farmland.
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How can it benefit crop production ?
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The already hot, dry countries of the world tend to be the ones with poor crop production and troubled economies.
root
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Cereal and root crops are equally vulnerable to rabbit damage.
rotation
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To these ends, longer and new crop rotations can be introduced.
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For example, crop rotation , hand weeding and hoeing.
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What crop rotation will suit the farm?
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Organic manures as nutrient sources-how best to make the most of organic manures and slurry in arable crop rotations .
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Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
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Whilst crop rotations are being established and fertility built up, it will probably be necessary to buy in some feeding-stuffs.
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Such careful spraying can go hand in hand with long-established techniques such as crop rotation , and planting resistant varieties.
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Many farmers are rediscovering the largely abandoned practices of crop rotation and manure spreading.
wheat
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Further away in commercialisation terms, work on lentils at Reading University suggests that following wheat crops would have lower N requirements.
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Winter wheat crop reported to be in fair-to-good condition.
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Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.
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The Agriculture Department said Monday the wheat crop in 19 states is in poor or very poor condition.
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The problems of a poor wheat crop were overcome and record volumes were produced at both mills in the fourth quarter.
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In some sections of Sonora, the disease affects more than half of the wheat crop , Bowden said.
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The former manor spread over several parishes, with a particular emphasis on sheep farming backed up by a large wheat crop .
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Already, 40 percent of Texas' wheat crop has been lost.
yield
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With cross-breeding, they improve crop yields and increase resistance to pests and disease.
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Pesticide use was reduced by 65 percent in the first year whilst crop yields increased.
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Plantations plantations had an excellent year with increased crop yields and improved prices for its produce.
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Tax was levied on the land regardless of crop yield , and an average family could hardly break even.
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Milk yields , crop yields and food conversion rates were all similar to those of the better farms in Britain.
■ VERB
damage
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Within a short while it became clear that this policy was damaging the rice crop .
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The farmers said pollutants from nearby Pemex plants had damaged their crops .
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Spray drift can seriously damage neighbouring crops , livestock, wildlife and humans.
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Humans would develop skin cancers; plants would be genetically damaged and crops devastated; animals would be blinded.
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Fire can damage crops and harm animals as well as people. 3 Fasten all gates.
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Wheat prices rallied as concerns spread that freezing cold and severe wind in the Plains states could damage the winter crop .
destroy
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The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years' worth of rice crop.
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The Army has destroyed crops , helicopters have bombed the surrounding areas and people have been tortured while under arrest.
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Potatoes INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes, farmers should give them to the needy.
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Modified viruses could cause famine by destroying crops or cause human and animal diseases of tremendous power.
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The Lincolns destroyed vital food crops and staging areas thus slowly sapping the bandits' will and strength.
grow
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Second or tertiary shoots will grow but the crop will be reduced and the fruit may not ripen in time.
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Farmers grow only a few crops , while gatherers pick from a vast range of wild plants.
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The population increased: so did rice production: so did the growing of new crops .
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Another part of the economy was stimulated by the need to provide a labour force to grow this flourishing crop .
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Enormous discipline would be necessary to run the irrigation systems necessary to grow crops .
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Some villagers, those with capital, established rubber smallholdings, or grew other crops for the market.
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There is enough rain in this region to provide grazing for cattle and good land to grow crops .
harvest
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Be ready to harvest crops from April.
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Time allowed 07:47 Read in studio A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat.
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Recent photo opportunities have shown both candidates replicating famous Benito Mussolini images of harvesting crops and embracing children.
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However, these small signs of infection would have arrived far too late for many early harvested commercial crops .
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Surely it can only harvest a crop of bald heads as human beings tear out their hair over it?
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Occasionally we'd harvest the lighter crops , like sweet potatoes or chillis.
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A good solution is to harvest the crop early in September, storing the tubers out of harms way.
irrigate
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One-third of the water irrigates thirsty crops of low value - alfalfa, cotton, rice - and pasture.
lose
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And if the rain continues, some farmers may lose their entire crop .
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We lost the flax crop I wrote about a week ago.
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If this flowering season coincides with a period of terrible weather, you could lose the entire crop for that year.
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Altogether they lost five staple crops .
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It was during the floods in 1984 when lots of people lost their crops and there was no work for them.
modify
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Research is in progress to modify crop plants genetically to make them yield more than one product.
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In 1998 it was already estimated that one-third of maize and soya products from the United States were from genetically modified crops .
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Voters are animated by new fears about global warming, genetically modified crops and globalisation.
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Most intense has been the reaction against genetically modified crops , known as GMOs, for genetically modified organism.
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For example, the pollen of modified crops had already been shown to be poisonous to monarch butterfly larvae.
produce
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Scattered around him were complete skeletons reminding him of when his country was able to produce crops and feed animals.
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Every year produces a new crop of explanations, a new collection of essays, experiments, and simulations.
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As Table 8.6 shows, two further plant attributes are being exploited to produce new crop plants.
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He also contends that Democrats have not produced a bumper crop of congressional candidates this year.
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In autumn 1995, each produced a small crop of their designated variety.
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Why don't producer nations simply switch crops and either become more self-sufficient in food, or produce a different cash crop?
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Sri Lanka's unique cricketing culture is currently producing an outstanding crop of young batsmen.
sell
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Low world prices and large government-held stocks will make it hard for them to sell their own crop .
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Such a company would be busy developing the next generation of products and services, even as it sold its cur-rent crop .
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It shows that a third of average incomes is generated by migrant labour and only a fifth by selling crops .
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In present day conditions, farmers can sell crops such as coffee only if high and constant quality can be guaranteed.
spray
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The discovery was made by a farmer out spraying his crops .
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If the food market expands, they reason, it could reduce the need to spray crops with harmful pesticides.
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Most viruses used in pest control programmes have been sprayed directly on to crops .
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Farmer Chris Slatter was spraying a crop of flax when he made the grim discovery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Growers lost 80 percent of the apple crop in the storm.
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Indian farmers have doubled their output of cereal crops like wheat.
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Most of the land is used for growing crops.
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Onions are one of the few crops that whitefly does not damage.
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Thanks to the lovely weather we had a bumper crop of peaches and nectarines this year.
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The famine was caused by drought, which led to widespread crop failure.
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The rain was so bad this year that he lost the whole crop of barley.
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With high-yield varieties of rice the farmers can grow two or three crops a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a late crop , it was still kingfisher green, and still full of life.
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I well remember during one hot dry summer talking to one grower who was complaining about his poor crop of parsnips.
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Nevertheless, to protect your crops they must at least be deterred.
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One tractor pulls it, another keeps a trailer moving alongside to receive the crop .
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The barn was filled with harvested crops, leaving only the threshing floor clear.
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The maize crops have almost completely failed for several years running.
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They cut fences and drive across crops.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
closely
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The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
up
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Many of the more glamorous film and photographic opportunities crop up at short notice, so you have to be flexible.
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While Dole tried to keep his focus on crime, other issues, particularly abortion, cropped up .
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However, business lunches may crop up from time to time - and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants.
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In the last couple of years, the issue has cropped up regularly.
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I thought 28 was one of those truly special issues, which crop up periodically.
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The ads keep cropping up from time to time in different papers, so I assume business must be good.
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Meanwhile another idea had cropped up .
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This worked great for a long time, but when you hit the year 2000, all sorts of problems crop up .
■ NOUN
hair
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Without exception, their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath.
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She has blue eyes and blond hair , cropped midway down her neck.
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Peter's hair is cropped on top and at the sides, but cascades over his floppy jumper at the back.
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My hair is cropped very, very short.
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His grey hair was cropped so short that at first I thought it was bald.
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His hair had been cropped cruelly short, and a piece of plaster covered a boil on his red, raw neck.
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All the signs are of threat - missing teeth, scars showing through hair cropped army-short - but there is no aggression.
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His full dark hair had been cropped in the barber's chair of the holding prison to a brush without lustre.
name
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The same names cropped up again and again.
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Once some one has established themselves as being the right sort of chap, then their name crops up time and again.
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Her name had rarely cropped up after that.
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We are in touch with you because your name cropped up in reports concerning the disappearance of the murdered man's wife.
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Jim Baxter's name would crop up more often than Ronnie Biggs.
problem
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It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention.
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This worked great for a long time, but when you hit the year 2000, all sorts of problems crop up.
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Where problems do crop up in the records they are often of the type that are familiar to all families with teenagers.
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Then problems began to crop up.
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The same problem will crop up again after the first conference, though less acutely since the cleaning times are reduced.
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Gradually, all kinds of little problems begin to crop up.
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There is one problem that immediately crops up here, and may be stated as follows.
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My job is to meet the other partners involved when problems crop up.
■ VERB
keep
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But I think it's too bad that it keeps cropping up all the time.
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The ads keep cropping up from time to time in different papers, so I assume business must be good.
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Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years?
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Jeff had some funny lines on sleeping together and swimming lessons at school strange how Len Fairclough kept cropping up.
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North of Grand Forks-East Grand Forks, farmers vainly attempted to throw up earthen dikes to keep ripening crops safe.
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One of the best natural examples of this is the ability of the flu virus to keep cropping up in new forms.
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The atmosphere was restless, impatient and mad, a word that kept cropping up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At that time one of those coincidences, which so often appear in life, cropped up.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, treatment centers cropped up all over the nation.
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Half-plate pictures, if they are well cropped before being sent out, are equally acceptable.
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However, business lunches may crop up from time to time - and also evening invitations which involve dining at restaurants.
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Nationally, nearly 50 scooter clubs have cropped up, and scooter runs are held regularly in nearly every state.
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Once some one has established themselves as being the right sort of chap, then their name crops up time and again.
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She carried a matching jacket, cropped above the waist and short-sleeved, for the Arizona nights had been unusually chilly.
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The same species seem to crop up repeatedly.