Sentence examples for existing crops from inspiring English sources

Its ambitious plan calls not only for an end to new planting, but for unprecedented eradication of existing crops.

We have increased natural toxins, disease and insect resistance; decreased anti-nutrition factors; and changed amino-acid distributions in all existing crops.

Because weeds have more diverse genomes, it is easier to find one with the proper genetic resistance to a given threat — and then to create a new hybrid by breeding it with existing crops.

Its plan for growth, at least for the next few years, is to expand acreage of the existing crops and come out with variations and combinations of the same traits.

Millions of the insects have deluged the desert nations at the height of their crucial planting seasons, devouring seedlings and existing crops of millet and sorghum, staples of their meager diets.

Existing crops, such as strawberries, raspberries, sugar beet and asparagus, have also flourished – and not just in the south – as global warming pushes up the temperature and extends the growing season.

One explanation for Congress's poor performance in UP, too, is that its existing crop of parliamentarians were unimpressive.

For hundreds of thousands of farmers' families, existing crop control laws and practices cause conflict and poverty (pdf), and crush hopes for economic improvement.

The existing crop insurance subsidy ballooned to $7.3 billion last year from $951 million in 2000, or about $1.2 billion adjusted for inflation, according to another G.A.O.

The approach promises more nutritious food without causing environmental damage, and has the potential for a "blue-green revolution" on Bangladesh's existing crop areas, extending to about 10m hectares (25m acres) and an additional nearly 3m hectares that remain waterlogged for four to six months.

The so-called Terminator technology, which firms renounced after being accused of engineering it in order to stifle poor farmers' ability to replant seed from an existing crop, still haunts the debate.Few of the GM plants now being sold by big biotech companies will make much difference to poor farmers.