Sentence examples for crop provides from inspiring English sources

The world's largest sugarcane crop provides bagasse, a fibrous residue which burns in high-pressure boilers.

And the heavy annual seed crop provides a source of food for a number of birds and rodents.

Yet the offensive in the village of Now Zad in Helmand Province could prove a harbinger of a wider and more significant effort in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold whose huge opium crop provides a large portion of the insurgency's financing.

Current research on Bt cotton in developed countries has revealed that this transgenic crop provides a key means for enhancing yields and boosting profits.

While crisp apples and fresh cider are no strangers to fans of the 37-acre research and outreach site, this year's crop provides an extra bonus for New York apple growers: proof that pollination can be done commercial honeybee free.

Farmers who cultivate opium poppies receive only a small percentage of the profits, but U.S. officials estimate the crop provides up to 12 times as much income per acre as conventional farming, and there is violent local resistance to eradication.

Wheat is an important staple crop, providing 20% of all calories consumed by people worldwide.

It promotes the production of so-called crop-milk with which pigeons feed their young, and the associated changes in structure and arrangement of the wall of the crop provide a convenient means to assay the hormone.

Rice in these areas is the major crop providing food for millions of subsistence farming families.

Starchy roots of the cassava plant are the world's fourth most important tropical crop, providing the majority of calories for 500 million people.

These insights into the genome biology of a polyploid crop provide a springboard for faster gene isolation, rapid genetic marker development, and precise breeding to meet the needs of increasing food demand worldwide.