Sentence examples for devastated crops from inspiring English sources

Even as flooded and broken levees forced people from their homes and devastated crops, the spillage helped spare other communities as the river spread farther inland.

That period was marked by frigid bouts of weather that devastated crops and led to periodic famines.

In the surrounding villages water shortages devastated crops.

Millions more are on the edge of starvation as the political turmoil has devastated crops.

Drought has devastated crops around the world this year, including corn and soybeans in the United States, wheat in Russia and Australia and soybeans in Brazil and Argentina.

Business is booming this season for California lettuce farmers, thanks to strong demand on the East Coast, where heavy rains and heat waves have devastated crops.

And in the Midwest, power plants are competing for water that farmers want for their devastated corn crops.

Yes, it was too late to salvage his devastated corn crop, but Mr. Bethmann was crossing his fingers that the rain would perk up his late-season soybeans and help him till and plow the fields.

infestation that devastated Australian agricultural crops in the 1920s [ 8].

What they found was a devastated encampment of 69 partially destroyed houses, a bean and corn crop which was failing, the bare minimum water supply with no irrigation system, no health care or education in the village, no electricity, no phones, no vehicles other than a few horses.

But it seems a bit cavalier to shut down an organization that, as Bill Clinton noted in his letter on Monday, has helped poor farmers in East Africa boost their crop yields, sick people throughout the continent gain access to AIDS medicines, and the devastated and deforested nation of Haiti plant five million trees.