Sentence examples for raising of crops from inspiring English sources

The remaining farms or plantations are devoted to the raising of crops for export, such as sugarcane, citrus fruits, and bananas.

Land is used for the cultivation of rice and other crops, raising of zebu and other livestock, the fabrication of bricks and other traditional livelihoods.

This may not sound ideal, but it's certainly preferable to sucking all the fish out of the oceans while raising crops of tasteless fish available only to the wealthiest consumers.

Indian foods and herbs, articles of manufacture, methods of raising some crops, war techniques, words, and a rich folklore are among the more obvious general contributions of the Indians to their European conquerors.

Contemporary Maya are basically agricultural, raising crops of corn, beans, and squash.

Since enclosure and piecemeal drainage of the hollows of its hummocky surface and the estuary silts were completed in the 19th century, Holderness has been one of the most productive agricultural regions in England, raising large crops of cereals as well as sugar beets and fodder crops and supporting a high density of livestock, including intensive pig and poultry enterprises.

The VCL is increasingly being famous among farmers as it is efficient in raising the productivity of crops for both hydroponic systems and foliar sprays.

An increasing number of farmers have been testing the alternative of raising crops across the border where there is a stable labor supply, growers and lawmakers in the United States and Mexico said.

It is therefore no wonder that yield levels of major food crops are significantly lower than their potential levels, indicating a potential of raising outputs of major food crops through crop productivity growth.

Mr. Trisko said his family knows that without his volunteer labor and agreement to share in the financial risk of raising crops, the small organic farm might not survive.

Leendertz has good answers  to all my concerns about the trickiness of raising a crop in such confined spaces: "In a way, it's a lot easier than doing it on a big scale.