The phrase "a severe crop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or serious reduction in agricultural yield or production due to adverse conditions.
Example: "The farmers reported a severe crop loss this season due to the unexpected drought."
Alternatives: "a significant crop" or "a drastic crop".
In Jayuya in the central portion of the island, the hurricane left severe crop damage, including a complete loss to the banana crop.
In 2001, the industry upon which most of Quisqueya depended for employment, sugarcane plantations, suffered severe crop failure, and a considerable percentage of families lost their only source of income.
This lineage was defined by nuclear DNA markers and, crucially, a mitochondrial haplotype termed Ib, and the Cornell team proposed that it had emerged from Mexico in the 1840s to cause severe crop losses on a global scale (Goodwin et al., 1994).
Hurricane Bonnie was a major hurricane that made landfall in North Carolina, United States, inflicting severe crop damage.
By 2040, severe crop failures previously estimated to occur once a century are likely to happen every 3 decades, the report finds.
Under diminishing moisture regimes of post-rainy environment, sorghum crop severely suffers from drought-associated root and stalk rots leading to severe crop lodging, besides loss of stover, grain quality, and productivity [ 8].
Sudan has this year been experiencing similar, but less dramatic conditions, with unpredictable rains, late harvests and severe crop losses.
Plant viruses cause severe crop losses worldwide.
This feeds on cotton floral fruits and buds causing severe crop losses.
Phythium ultimum and Phytopthora capsici are the most common destructive soil-borne pathogens having broad host range and causes severe crop loss to the farmers (Hausbeck and Lamour 2004).
