Synonym: clip, cut, growth, harvest, produce, shear, yield. Similar words: crops, across, cross out, crowded, get across, come across, cut across, put across. Meaning: [krɒp] n. 1. the yield from plants in a single growing season 2. a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale 3. a collection of people or things appearing together 4. the output of something in a season 5. the stock or handle of a whip 6. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food. v. 1. cut short 2. prepare for crops 3. yield crops 4. let feed in a field or pasture or meadow 5. feed as in a meadow or pasture 6. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
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151. Plantations plantations had an excellent year with increased crop yields and improved prices for its produce.
152. Several produce subtle chemical secretions which actually interfere with crop growth.
153. Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
154. Some unexpected expense always seems to crop up when you least want it to and throws your careful calculations out of the window.
155. During the enforcement season the bumper crop will be burnt by the army.
156. You have got to spray as soon as you catch the disease in the crop.
157. It says that the company razed forests, polluted rivers, retarded crop growth and caused birth defects.
158. With cross-breeding, they improve crop yields and increase resistance to pests and disease.
159. Of the current crop of leading Test batsmen Graeme Hick is the one most at risk to the fast, short-pitched ball.
160. He and his neighbours have decided that grass is the best crop to grow.
161. Potatoes INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes, farmers should give them to the needy.
162. The Agriculture Department said Monday the wheat crop in 19 states is in poor or very poor condition.
163. Potatoes are the only cash crop though even some of these are used for fodder.
164. He has always turned out teams who, until recently,(sentencedict.com) were the cream of the crop in terms of style.
165. Thus it is both a cash crop and a fodder crop.
166. Protect from birds with nets, and water regularly for a large, juicy crop of strawberries.
167. It should be treated as a crop rather than as a long-term tree and should be mixed with fruit and acacia trees.
168. Global warming will deeply affect poor countries, leading to huge numbers of refugees, crop failures, and extreme weather.
169. The amount of new land available for crop production is extremely limited in almost every part of the world.
170. Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss[sentencedict.com], would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.
171. When the cotton crop failed or when prices dropped because it was too abundant, blacks almost literally starved.
172. Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
173. The problems of a poor wheat crop were overcome and record volumes were produced at both mills in the fourth quarter.
174. Years of drought, crop failure and migration have meant that land is continually withdrawn from active production.
175. First he forbade the irrigation of alfalfa, a low-value, water-demanding crop; then he prohibited winter planting.
176. The impact of these problems on the cotton crop looks to be severe.
177. Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced, and was prophesying a bumper harvest.
178. So whether the problem be set aside, crop failure or simple loneliness, the message to farmers is clear.
179. The principle is to support the crop above the ground and to allow the air to circulate freely through it.
180. Modern farming methods, particularly in arable crop fields, were thought to be responsible for the declines.
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