Sentence examples for secondary crop from inspiring English sources

You have to grow them side by side with your other plants, as a secondary crop.

In the upland plains, in the open valleys, and on the terraced hillsides, rice is the principal summer crop, with corn (maize) an important secondary crop.

In alley-cropping, a main crop is intercropped with a secondary crop (often a food crop), secondary crops are cultivated in the alleys in between the main crop.

One example is the cultivation of beta-carotene rich sweet potatoes as a secondary crop in Africa; again, the disadvantages of these types of programs are high cost and logistical burdens.

The cross-cultural presence of two empirically distinct regimes for integrating foraging and farming is a useful frame of reference for evaluating how prehistoric foragers first integrated foraging and farming activities in archaeological contexts of secondary crop acquisition.

The discovery I'm referring to is the use of cover crops, which involves planting a secondary crop for the purpose of protecting the soil.

Secondary crops include beans, squash or pumpkins, chili peppers for seasoning, and tomatoes.

Rice, coconuts, bananas, papayas, and mangoes are secondary crops raised on Negros, and corn (maize) is the major food crop.

The principal food crop is rice, but cassava, sweet potatoes, corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), and soybeans are major secondary crops.

The cultivation of corn (maize), as well as of a number of secondary crops, provides basic subsistence for all of Mesoamerica.

But the list of secondary crops was large: chili peppers, tomatoes, squashes, sweet potatoes, cassava (manioc), cotton, tobacco, cacao, pineapples, papayas, maguey, nopals (prickly pears), sapotes (zapotes), peanuts (groundnuts), avocados, amates (paper figs), and many others.