Sentence examples for kill crops from inspiring English sources

Wasps, for example, eat worms that otherwise would kill crops.

Moreover, organic farming puts farmers at the mercy of insects and severe weather that can stress or even kill crops.

Ripping up opium plants with tractors and threatening to kill crops by aerial spraying with lethal chemicals has pushed Afghan farmers into the grip of the militants, she argues.

Just a few millimeters of the stuff can kill crops; a meter or more can make land unusable for decades, says Susanna Jenkins, a volcanologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

Drought can kill crops and increase erosion, while overly wet weather can cause harmful fungus growth.

For example, soaring temperatures can kill crops, the changing climate can produce sustained drought, and rising sea levels can inundate coastal cities.

In a landscape where food and forest are increasingly scarce, where there are thousands of farmers who use explosives or poison to scare or kill crop-raiding elephants, and where speeding vehicles kill vast numbers of wild animals each day - she is using the authority of her size to make sure I stay put, so that her baby can cross the road safely.

Agricultural drought begins when the lack of water starts killing crops and livestock.

As much as two-thirds of the country has suffered from drought this summer, which has killed crops, driven up food prices and caused feed shortages.

He says that seawater has penetrated up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) inland in some places, killing crops and contaminating wells.

The impact on corn has been similarly dramatic, with persistently low rainfall in Argentina's most verdant areas depleting soil water reserves and killing crops.