Sentence examples for instead of crops from inspiring English sources

It specializes in so-called nonrow agricultural chemicals–herbicides and pesticides for fruit and nut trees instead of crops like corn grown in rows.

The preview of the game was fairly brief, but gameplay will be similar to Farmville, except you'll be planting slot machines instead of crops on your path to building a successful virtual casino.

As the AP observed it its obituary Monday, the world-changing invention of the soldier-turned-designer "sowed havoc instead of crops".

Instead of crops in the fields we find rape, corn, reeds, which once processed end up in the fuel tanks of cars.

To Holbrooke, it proved the wisdom of the Administration's policy of concentrating on drug dealers instead of crop eradication.

Besides energy generation, the use of catch crops instead of main crops in biogas plants has several additional ecological benefits.

Generally, poor countries where drugs are produced and trafficked blame the richer consumer countries for failing to stem the demand for drugs, while the rich nations patronise them with offers of aid to help stem corruption and to get peasants to grow legal crops instead of drug crops.

Although the model is static, the input and output coefficients of the agricultural activities take temporal interactions into account as "crop rotations" and "dressed animal" instead of individual crops or animals (Hengsdijk and van Ittersum 2003).

Now, instead of growing crops for local consumption, farmers began growing crops for export.

Growing mixtures of species instead of sole crops is expected to increase the ecosystem services provided by cover crops.

However, presently due to its high yield nature and its high price in the market compared to other food crops, people of the study area prefer to grow rice instead of other crops.