Sentence examples for dependent on crops from inspiring English sources

This bottom-up approach punctured the idea that the livelihoods of refugee farmers are solely dependent on crops as they explained that they actually spread the risk by ensuring other household members do different kinds of work.

Like ethanol, isobutanol relies on fermentable sugars as raw materials; that makes Gevo dependent on crops like corn and sorghum.

Colombian economists estimate that 1.8 million small-scale farmers would see their net agricultural income fall by over 16percentt on average, but 400,000 farmers dependent on crops that would compete with U.S. products would lose 48 to 70percentt of their farm income.

Now, Cuba is no longer dependent on one crop for its income and can count on a variety of industries that will remain largely unaffected by the demise of Venezuela.

The incidence of root-knot nematodes was largely dependent on crop rotation: a melon crop in summer increased its incidence on the subsequent lettuce crops whereas a summer sorghum cover crop had no effect.

Harvesting time is dependent on crop type and variety.

It is dependent on crop species and genotype (Lazcano et al. 2011).

This may imply that as households engage more in livestock and non-farm activities, they become less dependent on crop farming and less motivated to invest for adaptation in the crop sector.

Nevertheless, non-farm income reduces the probability of adaptation by about 2% in the dry lowland showing that households who engage in non-farm activities are less dependent on crop farming and hence less motivated to invest for adaptation in the crop sector.

Likewise trials in the USA also indicated that no response to N fertilizer was found with deep drainage as opposed to a 10-67 percent yield increase, dependent on crop type, experienced when shallow drainage is practised (Table 27).

In 2018, rainfall was as much as 70percentt below the long-term average in nearly 22 provinces of Afghanistan, severely affecting millions of people dependent on crop farming and livestock.