Sentence examples for scant crop from inspiring English sources

Even a scant crop of peas was passed around the conference room table as a snack.

It is largely inhabited by impoverished cotton farmers who are reliant on the region's scant rainfall for their crop.

William Randolph Hearst was then busy investing millions in timber in both America and Mexico.The only competition came from hemp, a crop requiring scant water and no pesticides.

For the second year running a scant monsoon threatens their crops.

Loss of irrigation, desert expansion, a shift to higher-value crops and scant farm labor in well-off coastal provinces are all pressuring China's grain harvests, says Lester Brown, the early voice of scarcity concerns.

Local irrigation works augment the scant supply of rainfall; major crops are jowar (grain sorghum), bajra (pearl millet), and oilseeds.

Many studies have reported evidence describing the effects of K2SO4 fertilizer on crop productivity, but there is scant information about the yield-increasing mechanisms when influencing soil properties by K2SO4 application in calcareous and alkaline soils.

Nevertheless, the scant protein sequence information available for this crop in databases complicates the analysis and prevents a more comprehensive one of the proteome changes induced.

Seed and pollen exchange are both essential for the dispersal and persistence of alleles in cross-pollinated plants [15], yet there has been scant research on the effect of seed exchange on crop genetics [16], [17].

Knowledge on waterlogging tolerance from germination to crop establishment in lentil and pea is scant.

Plus, scant mention was made of the reasonableness of raising a water-intensive crop such as rice in a drought-stricken state.