The word 'crops' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as either a noun or a verb. Noun: Farmers need to use fertilizers regularly to ensure healthy crops. Verb: The farmer plans to crop the field this year in order to grow corn.
CleanStar has steered clear of monoculture crops in favour of sustainable farming methods.
A model farmer with crops and livestock, he has solar electricity and cable television, which are extremely rare in Katine.
It notes that smallholder farm yields fall short of the estimated potential for most food crops (cereals and pulses).
It points out that such crops have been subjected to more testing worldwide than new non-modified varieties, citing reports from the EU, the World Health Organisation and the US national academy of sciences.
Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.
It ran through their properties and, they claim, caused serious damage to their land, crops and animals.
A JIEDDO contractor even posed in 2009 as a US college student to call Afghan farmers, using the unauthorized cover story of working on a scholastic research project, to "ask about their crops and opinions on the Coalition war effort in that country".
Paterson is an enthusiastic supporter of GM crops and earlier this month said: "The longer Europe continues to close its doors to GM, the greater the risk that the rest of the world will bypass us altogether.
Last year, Tanzania's farmers produced one of the biggest maize crops the country has ever seen.
Sadly, he had to drop the novel's lunar crops on budgetary grounds.
They can help to mitigate and potentially reverse climate change, curb unemployment and provide more nutrient-dense crops to the world.
