That would cause a great deal of heartache and significant crop loss.
Vegetables, melons, bananas, and dates are the country's most significant crops.
The harvested leaves are extremely susceptible to postharvest disease and rapid spoilage, and farmers frequently incur significant crop losses.
Sunflower seeds, another significant crop, are grown throughout the republic, though the southeastern regions have the largest plantations.
Significant crops include corn (maize), beans, wheat, and sugarcane; sugar refineries and grain mills are located in Guadalajara.
This post discusses how the photograph was edited, calling it "one of the most significant crops" in history.
Other significant crops are beans, peanuts (groundnuts), pois du cap (lima beans), coconuts, pepper, vanilla, cacao, sisal, raffia, tobacco, copra, cotton, and castor beans.
They even made an investment in the future by planting asparagus, which won't produce a significant crop for several years.
It is no coincidence that the most significant crop research is now being done by large companies such as Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta, and has concentrated upon corn and soya - the crops which are doing better.
"But this was a historically significant crop".
