Sentence examples for key crop from inspiring English sources

Because the key crop science is held by private interests and kept from small farmers.

Sugar was the key crop in Tobago from the time that Gedney Clarke, a British landowner, exported the first shipment in 1770.

However, to identify key crop targets for new farming systems, an improved understanding of the physiological mechanisms mediating these yield responses is required.

Tobacco, less important than it once was, continues to be a key crop in several southern counties, while acreage devoted to growing corn (maize) has expanded greatly in recent years.

And the loss of plant and animal biodiversity generally makes humanity ever-more dependent on a handful of key crop species and chemical inputs that make food production less, rather than more, resilient.

We reviewed literature on both how key crop physiological processes and the observed yields under production conditions are impacted by high temperatures occurring particularly in the flowering and grain filling phases for wheat, maize and rice.

The key crops were corn (maize), beans, and squash.

Another letter claims, without citing evidence, that the production of key crops would fall by "up to 40%".

Yet, these three key crops are also largely grown in countries most at risk from a more variable climate.

The fund will initially prioritise key crops in Mars' and Danone's product lines that are dominated by smallholder production.

The Incas, who domesticated quinoa, were astute agricultural engineers in the sense that so many of their key crops were essentially weeds.