Sentence examples for crippling crops from inspiring English sources
The drought may be crippling crops, but it's also driving up prices.
"The Dust Bowl," a new documentary from Ken Burns, revisits the "great plow-up" for wheat crops and the crippling drought that followed in the Thirties.
CCD not only threatens the beekeeping operations that provide pollination service and honey production but also has the potential for crippling the production of the many crops that are dependent on honeybees for pollination.
Mao and the surrounding area used to be home to a huge pastoral and farming community, but a shortage of viable land to grow crops has had a crippling effect.
The scientists say Thera's outburst produced deadly waves and dense clouds of volcanic ash over a vast region, crippling ancient cities and fleets, setting off climate changes, ruining crops and sowing wide political unrest.
Gore went on to decry corporate decisions to develop herbicide-resistant crops and a bacterium that could prevent commercially crippling frost damage to crops.
Early in the season, Hurricane Dennis caused significant damage to various citrus and vegetable crops in Cuba, though the damage was not crippling.
That's because climate change and crippling poverty are driving Africa's cocoa farmers to produce other crops.
Declining productivity and the crippling effects of the floods last year, which not only destroyed standing crops but also the irrigation network and property, exacerbated an already difficult food supply situation.
