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n. (plural of food crop English)
Usage examples of "food crops".
Most of the major centers of plant domestication evolved not only food crops but also fiber crops--notably cotton, flax (the source of linen), and hemp.
Most of the major centers of plant domestication evolved not only food crops but also fiber crops—.
Neither Bantu nor white farmers, heirs to thousands of years of farming experience, were subsequently able to develop southern African native plants into food crops.
On comparison the above figures will show this plant to be almost equal to some of our more important green-food crops.
Environmental protection legislation was already crippling industry with clean-environment standards so stringent, heavy-industry manufacturing plants, industrial chemical production firmsincluding agricultural chemicals critical to producing Terran food crops in Jeffersonian soiland even paper-production mills literally could not operate in compliance.
All these humans had seen of their homeworld was food crops, a few pollinating insects and rats.
Genetic engineering had made New Washington's native grain one of the most valuable food crops in space.
Most areas produce a mixture of food crops and possibly one or more cash crops (e.
Thou- sands of years ago humans began to gather seeds from wild Cannabis and grow them in fields alongside the first culti- vated food crops.
They wished, they said, to destroy the technology of gengineering and all that had sprung from it--Bioblimps and Roachsters and other vehicles, housing, new food crops, Freddies.
Hemp has a short growing season and can be planted after food crops have been harvested.
When the sums had been carefully done and checked it was clear that food crops could be produced most reasonably, and transported cheaply to the nearest inhabited worlds, while the entire operation was designed to show a handsome profit as well.
The wind would carry the virus across Australia, perhaps to New Zealand as well -- a carefully designed virus that would attack and destroy any and all of the food crops grown on Earth.
The wind would carry the virus across Australia, perhaps to New Zealand as well-a carefully designed virus that would attack and destroy any and all of the food crops grown on Earth.
He went for a walk on the crest of the fin, up and down the long greenhouse stuffed with bamboo and food crops.