Sentence examples for devastating plantations from inspiring English sources

At the forefront of this battle is a dispute over a specific GM project – supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – to create a modified version of the country's staple food crop, the matooke, a starchy variety of banana, that cannot be killed off by a disease called banana leaf wilt that has been devastating plantations.

The fungus Marssonina brunnea is a causal pathogen of Marssonina leaf spot that devastates poplar plantations by defoliating susceptible trees before normal fall leaf drop.

An aerial survey mission estimated that at least of coconut plantations were devastated; other coconut plantations throughout the Philippines also suffered considerable damage.

These include Fair Trade, Equal Exchange, Fairtrade, and Rainforest Alliance (which has an added environmental component -- perfect since the chocolate industry is also guilty of devastating rainforests for plantations and production).

Another big storm would also wreck efforts to resuscitate the region's economy, after Haiyan devastated farmland, coconut plantations and fishing fleets.

In the late 1800s, after coffee leaf rust devastated the Arabica plantations in Sri Lanka, the British government decided to grow a new type of coffee: Liberica.

A government plan to convert hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to irrigated plantations could be devastating to people and ecosystems downstream.

And, if Coppola kept the plantation, he had to keep the Bunnies — a devastating new scene, as the boat draws up beside a medevac encampment, where the girls are lodged in refuge from the rain.

This devastated the large commercial plantations that fed the export trade.In 1992, the disease mutated into a form that is able to attack the Cavendish variety.

Many palm tree plantations were devastated.

The hurricane devastated sugar and banana plantations.