Sentence examples for Asian crops from inspiring English sources

"Small farms experimenting with Asian crops is where the action is, rather than the big commodity market of bok choy and cabbages," he said.

Larry Laverentz, the program manager for refugee agriculture with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, said inspiration came from the Hmong, Mien and Lao refugee farmers of Fresno County, Calif., who settled in the late 1970s and now have 1,300 growers specializing in Asian crops.

This suggests that there was a package of South Asian crops which included mungbean and horsegram brought into Thailand.

The Asian crops were common on the Comoros and on Madagascar, but rare on the East African coast.

Carney challenges conventional histories, which describe Europeans adapting an Asian crop to American uses.

By taking an Asian crop and using it to make better tyres, they will be getting their own back.

The bananas bloomed in his hi-tech solar room, which stays between 10C and 16C above outside temperature all year, and is just warm enough for the east Asian crop to grow healthily.

Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange (NEE) and Ecosystem respiration (Reco) were measured between 2009 and 2010 on 5 dominant crops (potato, rice, radish, cabbage and bean) in the Haean catchment of South Korea, using a closed chamber system to quantify CO2 fluxes in this agricultural landscape characteristic of the Asian cropping system.

Cowpea forage is used for livestock and cowpea hay plays a critical role as fodder during the dry season in West Africa [ 4]. 'Longbean' or 'Asparagus bean' of cowpea cultivar group Sesquipedialis is considered one of the top-ten Asian vegetable crops and is grown on at least 400,000 hectares worldwide for production of fresh 'green' or 'snap' beans.

In August, an infestation of citrus longhorned beetle, a close cousin of the Asian longhorned, cropped up near Seattle in an open-air quarantine center holding imported bonsai maples, and there is evidence that the beetles spread miles away.

Chickpea [ Cicer arietinum (L).] belongs to the member of West Asian Neolithic crop assemblage which is associated with the origin and evolution of ancient agriculture in the central part of the Fertile Crescent ∼10,000 12,000 years ago.