Sentence examples for mixed crops from inspiring English sources

Indonesia's indigenous farmers traditionally have small plots and grow mixed crops.

With the acquisition of further tracts of land, new settlements were set up, and the acreage under citrus and mixed crops, especially truck crops, increased considerably.

Sierra Leone is undergoing significant transitions in land use, with large biofuels projects and movement from subsistence swamp rice farming to mixed crops such as cassava and commercial farming of palm and rubber.

Driving by, I could have easily mistaken the farms for jungle land, but a closer inspection revealed well-kept traditional plots that grow a variety of mixed crops, from cacao and coffee to cloves and fruits.

Jon Birchall is a farming consultant in Shropshire and Herefordshire, working on contract farming agreements (where labour and machinery are hired via a third party), and is responsible for 3,000 acres of mixed crops, dairy and beef cattle across eight farms.

The Iowa that had orchards and vineyards and mixed crops and livestock and plenty of small and mid-size farms has been eaten by the new Iowa, the fields swept clean, farmsteads dozed, barns allowed to tumble in and then burned.

On the contrary, DP account for an extraordinary high share of income in Specialist field crop, in Mixed livestock and crops-livestock, Specialist grazing livestock and Mixed cropping farms (Table 1).3 The relative importance of DP is higher in small farms than in medium and large farms.

Inland from the narrow coastal strip is a broad zone of mixed cropping and grazing.

In others, like Mauritius, they maintain a mixed crop bed, weeding out only invasive plants.

This has given Cuba an ecology-based agriculture - including organic fertilisers, animal traction, mixed cropping and biological pest controls - which has taken root.

Retrospective analyses have demonstrated that the original "simple" mixed cropping system was more efficient than the separate fields of individual crops of the colonists' agricultural system which, of course, eventually prevailed and persists to this day.