If possible, in the year before you plant potatoes, plant a cover crop to improve the soil and the potato production.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

So, now, the defenders have to do it, in a perfect situation, I am marching towards their corn crop, grain crop, at the time just before the grain is going to be harvested.

因此被侵方就要做出反应,制定完美的方案,我在庄稼即将成熟之前,会去掠夺他们的庄稼

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There are some very poor areas in Africa where farmers really run the risk-- if their crop fails it could be really bad; they would be approaching starvation.

在非洲有一些非常贫困的地区,那里的农民真的面临着巨大的风险,一旦庄稼歉收 他们的处境将变得很糟糕,他们将经历饥荒

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

During this period,many experts warned of mass starvation in the developing world where populations were expanding faster than crop production.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The South had its greatest cotton crop ever in 1860.

860年棉花产量是南方有史以来最高的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

In exchange for this, the owner would get a large share of the crop raised by the tenant farmer.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The reason for that is, if you are just engaged in a single crop farming, well you plant it, you take care of it, and then when the times comes you reap it.

其中的原因是,如果只是种庄稼,你先播种,接着你好生照料它们,然后成熟时收割它们

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This is because diseases that infect beans can stay in the soil and infect the next bean crop.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

I was standing at the World Economic Forum at one of our lunch things and a young woman approached from Swiss Re, which is the Swiss Reinsurance Company, and she said she wanted my ideas on how to sell crop insurance in Africa.

有一次,在世界经济论坛的午餐会上,一位瑞士再保险的年轻女士找到了我,她公司的全称是瑞士再保险公司,她说她想知道我关于,如何在非洲出售农作物保险的意见

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The electronics industry is hoping a new crop of products will help it recover from an eight percent decrease in sales last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

Most of the research centered on rice, an important crop in those three West African countries.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

The seeds can also resist the Striga weed, a big cause of crop failures in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Cotton was a crop that grew well in the rich, dark soil near the river.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Citrus growers know that the number of fruit in their current crop has an inverse effect on the number of flowers in the return bloom.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He says you can harvest parsley by cutting most of the plant, or leave more of the plant in the ground for a second crop.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

The researchers advise growers to investigate the effects of thinning or pruning to reduce the number of fruit in early summer of the on-crop year.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

At the same time, orchids produced in factories have become an important greenhouse crop.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

A second or sometimes third crop will be ready in late summer.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

California grows most of the strawberry crop in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Ireland in the eighteen forties suffered one crop failure after another.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

"I take it that most of your soldiers are small farmers and will need the horses to put in a crop that will carry themselves and their families through the next winter.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

"We want it to be like a farmer, when he raises his crop, he can sell it in any town."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

John Ridley,a grain farmer in New South Wales, says his crop could fail if the rains do not come soon.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

"And,that's one of the reasons the United States is going to downgrade crop eradication as part of its policies in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

She says for developing countries to improve their crop output, investment needs to be made in promoting traditional farming techniques.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

We've never been able to get that substantiated, but it does crop up in some of the commentaries.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

They can also find out how much their crop is selling for in the city markets.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Almost a century ago, boll weevils destroyed two-thirds of the cotton crop in this region.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

And Africa,where approximately depends on rainfall, is particularly vulnerable, Climate change can be reversed, in part,he says, through reforestation programs, better land management and the rehabilitation of degraded crop and pasture land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29