Sentence examples for alternative crop from inspiring English sources

Golf courses and hotels are the most promising alternative crop.

In recent years, rhubarb has become an alternative crop planted by struggling New York apple growers seeking to diversify.

U.S. aid paid for armaments, training, and a few alternative crop schemes, but these had little effect on drug cultivation.

"Opium is more drought resistant than wheat, the main alternative crop, and opium does not require road transportation," they write.

A substantial drought also played a part, because no alternative crop could survive as the poppies did.

The best alternative crop, it may be, is marijuana.But it is too early to sound the death knell for Kentucky.

The topic of the conference is drug trafficking: the guerrillas are heavily involved in the cocaine trade but say they would favor alternative crop-substitution programs.

Alternative crops would be less profitable.

Mr. Santos said growers who abandoned coca would get help to support alternative crops.

Cultivation is a leading measure of farmers' openness to growing alternative crops.

"The Afghan farmer will not switch to alternative crops as long as there is a market for his opium".