The phrase "sparse crop" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means a small or limited amount of crops, or a crop that is not very dense or thick. Example: Despite the fertile soil, the farmers were disappointed with the sparse crop they harvested this year due to the drought.
Despite his very sparse crop, my neighbor across the aisle was rejected as having "too much hair".
But the pronouncements yesterday by the rival camps in the New York Senate race showed once again that candidates would rather be perceived as harvesting bushels of contributions than as having a sparse crop.
During the influence of the southern oscillation phenomena corresponding to 0 340 days after plating (DAP), the sparse crop was a net carbon source with net ecosystem production (NEP) of −66 g(C) m−2.
He and fellow male utopians fled their brief 1843/4 experiment in transcendental communal living (try Richard Francis's remorseless exposé, Fruitlands) to wander and prate, abandoning Abigail and her infant girls to survive a bitter winter on a sparse crop of cereals and the apples from 10 trees.
Deep in the Amazon, in a village accessible only by boat, river dwellers for generations have survived off fish, sparse crops and nuts from the forest.
Now they will cultivate their current roster, as well as the sparse free-agent crop.
If flowering is sparse or fruit crops, especially peaches, are thin, the weather was the cause.
Whereas data on the energy efficiency and GHG balances for biofuels are available, information on agronomic and ecological consequences of large-scale production of bioenergy crops is sparse.
Published data on glyphosate residues in glyphosate-tolerant crops are sparse.
These results demonstrate that current-generation transcriptome sequencing can overcome obstacles in crops with sparse sequencing resources; however, additional work is needed to apply these high-throughput SNP-discovery approaches to polyploid plant genomes.
He is from Niger, where sparse rains resulted in a modest crop harvest, leaving Saguiro's mother able to feed her children only one meal a day.
