Sentence examples for formerly grown from inspiring English sources

Coffee, formerly grown on large plantations, is cultivated in the valleys by peasants.

Cotton and sugar beets, formerly grown in the Ararat Plain, are being succeeded by more valuable crops, such as grapes.

Higher-yielding corn (maize) and rice, formerly grown mainly in the east and southeast, have tended to supplant millet and kaoliang (a variety of grain sorghum) in the plains.

Other cash crops include tobacco, grown chiefly on irrigated land in the vicinity of Yishui and Weifang; hemp, produced on low ground in the southwest; and fruit, formerly grown only on lower slopes of the central and peninsular hill masses but now cultivated over a wider area.

H 77/833-2 (terminal drought sensitive) is the male parent of a number of thermo-tolerant, extra-early, high-tillering and high-yielding pearl millet hybrids formerly grown in north-western India.

In other instances, shortages and price inflation occur because farmers who formerly grew crops like vegetables for consumption plant different crops that can be used for fuel.

For miles along the highway, we passed barren acreage that formerly grew winter wheat but was now slated for new houses.

Amongst the farmers who perceived soil erosion problem, the surveyed households reported the indicators in terms of gully appearance on cultivated land (9.59%); decrease in soil productivity (50%); decrease in soil depth (38.89%); decline in yield from plots (49.1%) and decrease in capacity of soils to grow a variety of crops it formerly grows (36.11%).

In the centre of the first floor is the Oak Hall, so-called because of the oaks formerly growing on the site of the new hall.

Also working on Volkswagen Smileage with Google, Volkswagen of America and Deutsch L.A. — part of the Deutsch unit of Lowe & Partners, owned by the Interpublic Group of Companies — is Grow, formerly Grow Interactive, a digital agency in Norfolk, Va., that worked with Google on Project Re:Brief.

Cacao (Theobroma cacao), also called cocoa, tropical evergreen tree (family Malvaceae, formerly Sterculiaceae) grown for its edible seeds, whose scientific name means "food of the gods" in Greek.