Sentence examples for crops for example from inspiring English sources

Domestic production appears to be rising, though Nigeria still has hardly any companies that add value to basic crops, for example by turning fruit into juice.

They increase species diversity by providing habitat, and some of those species are friendly to farmers — bees and butterflies that help pollinate crops, for example.

Forage crops, for example, could be confined to steep land to minimize erosion; intertilled crops could be planted on the better soils with gentle slopes.

For a farmer about to spray his crops, for example, knowing how the wind speed and direction will vary from one field to another is invaluable.

Tree crops, for example, need a long growth period, and mineral reserves are tapped only if expectations about the price trend are favourable.

India has more than its share of problems that biotechnology could fix (diseases and harsh conditions for crops, for example) and a wealth of organisms that might be tweaked genetically to do the fixing.

But such ventures, if done badly, could also cause damage, sending new genetic strains into the country's basmati rice crop, for example, threatening a staple food.

These effects could be harmful to health or the environment, or just have adverse effects on the agronomic properties of the crop (for example, it could cause the crop to grow poorly under some conditions, as has happened in practice with some other GM crops).

Many farmers tap the Ogallala Aquifer for at least part of their crop, but Texas also has substantial areas of "dry-land cotton" (about one-third of Mr Evans's crop, for example) that remain outside the irrigators' reach.Free trade is even more of a threat.

Asthmapolis plots and analyses the data, and sends weekly reports to participating patients and their doctors summarising the observations and making recommendations.That is useful for the individuals involved, since it may illuminate patterns of which they were unaware (the proximity of a particular kind of crop, for example).

Small-scale cropping for example offers the opportunity of a relatively stable income addition for pastoralists.