crop failure

Pest-resistant and stress-tolerant crops can be developed to reduce the risk of crop failure due to drought and disease.

Two consecutive years or poor rain has resulted in crop failure and the death of up to 30 percent of livestock.

"If we have total crop failure from drought or floods, " he says, "I can at least plant my fields again. "

It was not that the deficiency in fertilizer was responsible for the crop failure.

Too small spacing among the plant stands is causative of the crop failure.

K. Shivamma, a 38-year-old farmer, said she took her first loan hoping to reverse several years of crop failure brought on by drought.

Farmers pay an extra 5% to insure a bag of seed, fertiliser or other things like herbicide against crop failure.

The Mandans protected themselves against the disaster of crop failure and accompanying hunger.

Six months ago, the drought in the north-western provinces of Inner Mongolia and Liaoning caused widespread crop failure.

The drought and crop failure were the most serious in North China in a hundred years.

Crop failure and famine in the deserted interiors; emergency rationing in the teeming coastal cities.

The Mandans protected themselves against the disaster of crop failure and acnetpanying hunger.

Crop failure has become a known fact, world wide, as we predicted, due to the erratic weather.

Due to the crop failure caused by drought, the villages' hope for good harvest dashed to pieces.

Sow your wild oats on Saturday night -- Then on Sunday pray for crop failure .

Famine eventuated from the crop failure.

The weather was partly to blame for crop failure.

For instance, 1800, 1812, 1821, 1836 and 1856 were years of total crop failure and extreme suffering.

Another year of crop failure would mean starvation for many people.

Farmers understand that adverse weather or severe pest infestations, for- example, can produce crop failure, or lack of response.

He ran his farm in the red because of successive crop failure.

It is said that 200 years ago in Germany, Grapes were facing crop failure because of frost.

For farmers, that can make the difference between crop failure and a bumper crop of more than 1, 000 tons of wheat.

Industrial countries need never go short of food because of crop failure, since they can always afford to buy enough on world markets.

They had a crop failure last year.

In the most likely scenarios, climate change would cause some kind of regional or continental disruption, like a major crop failure;

Crop failure and famine in the deserted interiors;