Sentence examples for compared to crop from inspiring English sources

Owing to the small landholdings, herders considered livestock of primary importance compared to crop production.

Livestock production was the primary source of livelihood (69%) (χ 2 = 56.19; df = 2; P = 0.00) compared to crop production (Table 2).

Orchid seeds appear to be short-lived compared to crop plant seeds, even if considered desiccation tolerant (Pritchard et al. 1999; Seaton and Pritchard 2003).

Lycosidae and Theridiidae were more numerous in fallows (emergence & activity density) compared to crop fields, while Staphylinidae and Linyphiidae showed opposite patterns.

The contrasts in the hydrodynamic and sorption properties between both the ditch bed and banks materials likely results in significantly different water and pesticide infiltration patterns in ditches compared to crop fields.

Although in recent years oil production has become the dominant feature of the country's political economy, livestock and livestock products continued to contribute approximately 20% of Sudan's annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and are the most important contributor to agricultural sector GDP, when compared to crop farming (Fahey 2007).

Raising beef cattle requires 160 times more land and causes 11 times more greenhouse gas emissions when compared to crops like wheat, rice or potatoes (finally – a reason to ditch the carb-free diet!).

For a forest sub-catchment compared to cropped areas, the offset of this relationship was larger, with generally larger variability at similar mean soil moisture values.

On arable land, SRC are less competitive in many regions compared to cropping systems and thus farmers are interested to establish SRC on grassland.

To some extent, goat husbandry had a higher impact on gross margins when compared to cropping (plots A and B) because farmers used their own crops as feed, inputs for cropping were costly and crops failed due to droughts.

Despite its ecological advantages compared to maize, an enlargement of the share of grass feedstock is not assumed here because permanent grassland is less competitive in many regions compared to cropping systems [55].