Sentence examples for crops sustained from inspiring English sources
Most of the banana crop was destroyed, and other crops sustained similar but lesser damage.
On Tikopia, crops sustained damage, though the effects were considered light given the circumstances.
All bridges in the island's interior regions collapsed, and spice crops sustained heavy damage.
The entire fruit and vegetable crop was lost during the storm while the vanilla and geranium crops sustained heavy damage.
Rice and hay crops sustained minor damage, the harvest of the former delayed by about a week.
On St Vincent and the Grenadines, at least two homes had their roofs blown off and banana crops sustained moderate damage.
(These crops sustain New York's dairy industry, third in the nation). Scouting all that land for pests?
Steps to redress this hydrological imbalance require knowledge of the ecohydrology of native systems such as eucalypt woodlands, which grow on deeper soils low in the landscape, and, unlike annual crops, sustain growth and water use during summer months.
Research undertaken by Bioversity International shows that when farmers grow three or more bean varieties in their fields their crops sustain significantly less damage than those on plots with few varieties, particularly in years when there is a high incidence of disease.
Genetic resources are indispensable, be they insects pollinating plants, microscopic bacteria needed for making cheese, diverse breeds of livestock needed for making a living even in the harshest of environments, or the thousands of varieties of crops sustaining food security worldwide.
The hurricane dropped heavy rainfall, causing flash flooding that damaged factories and crops; the tobacco crop sustained heavy losses to the extent that the Monthly Weather Review described it as "virtually wiped out".
