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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.02.04

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

VOA: special.2009.03.24

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