Sentence examples for expanding crops from inspiring English sources

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is among the fastest expanding crops, due to high global demand for vegetable oils.

Macadamias are common in this part of the island, along with other expanding crops, like coffee and medicinal herbs, replacing the old, monotonous vistas of cane fields.

This has happened already on a huge scale across Southeast Asia, where peat swamps have been drained to plant oil palm — one of the world's most profitable and fastest expanding crops, used in a huge variety of consumer products from food to cosmetics — and tree monocultures for pulp and paper.

Their collecting has spurred the growth of art schools and helped create a steadily expanding crop of museumgoers.

It is therefore imperative to find ways to achieve global food security without expanding crop or pastureland and without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

Nonexistent as a commodity beyond East Asia at the dawn of the twentieth century, soy became the most rapidly expanding crop in world agriculture after World War II.

But because the town is at the nexus of several major highways just 44 miles from Manhattan, its commercial corridors are lined with an expanding crop of strip malls.

Therefore, flax is not only a historically important species; it remains an important, versatile and expanding crop today, in many parts of the world.

Improving plant stress tolerance is especially important with respect to biofeedstock crops, in view of the need for expanding crop production to marginal lands for both food and biofuel crop production; addressing environmental stress brought about through climate change; and assuring consistent, predicable biomass supplies for processing.

In addition, only one previous study has investigated the impacts of oil palm agriculture on functional diversity (Table  1; Edwards et al., 2013), yet this is a widespread and rapidly expanding crop globally (Fitzherbert et al., 2008; Gibbs et al., 2010).

The 1980 Act expanded crops and areas eligible for insurance and authorized a 30percentt subsidy of the crop insurance premium.