Mr.Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

Experts say the new methods also increase crop production up to five times more than crops that depend on rainfall only.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

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

Professor Moseley said Malian farmers had planted more sorghum because the price of their cotton, a cash crop,had dropped.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

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

So you could say the ones who are chosen are the best ones, or the cream of the crop.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

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

VOA: special.2010.02.04

But the crop of foreign students in agriculture and natural resources was twenty percent bigger than the year before.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

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

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Economists blamed the crisis on different causes, including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food-crop lands for biofuel production.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

The market value of the yearly cacao crop around the world is more than five billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

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

During an on-crop year, growers often treat the fruit so it can stay on the tree longer.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The findings suggest that thinning during the on-crop year can increase the value of off-year pecan crops.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

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