Sentence examples for crops valuable from inspiring English sources

Maize is one of the world's most widely cultivated crops, valuable not only for human and animal consumption, but also for ethanol production [ 26].

They're doing it not just in spite of the drought, but because of it: Almonds may be California's last crop valuable enough to make a profit if the drought doesn't end.

Furthermore, a metabolomic approach might be useful in the breeding of crops, since valuable plant traits such as taste and yield are closely related to metabolic conditions.

If their fields are irrigated at all, they are flooded wastefully, with water flowing down furrows on either side of the crop, taking valuable nitrogen with it.

Falling prices reduce the cost of subsidised crop insurance to the taxpayer (since less valuable crops cost less to insure).

Farmers can focus production efforts on the most valuable crops or continue to produce a variety of crops meeting market demand with the knowledge that each does not contribute equally to profitability.

In developing countries it will, very largely, mitigate the impact of drought because when farmers lose their food crop, they will still have immensely valuable crop residues to sell to the biofuels industry.

Cotton there could be replaced by other, more valuable crops.

This is particularly useful for valuable crops and those especially susceptible to insects.

The thought of growing more valuable crops almost never comes up.

Nor does the thought of growing more valuable crops for local markets.