A crop produced for use as food, either for sale commercially or for use by the grower.
thousands of small forest farmers raise coffee for cash and food crops for subsistence
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- Commercial repellents can be sprayed directly onto plants—though many cannot be used on food crops.
- Lacewings are beneficial insects which prey on bugs that damage food crops.
- Some biotech outfits have dodged the protesters by avoiding food crops altogether.
- Yields have not been increased by bio-engineered canola, another main transgenic food crop on the market.
- In the case of food crops, there are some cases in which risk analysis would be required.
- All our food crops were originally created with standard plant breeding methods.
- US authorities said the corn did not reach food crops or animal feed.
- Amateurs—who were expressing personal values far beyond the profit motive—bred all of our major food crops.
- Of today's major food crops, more originated from there than from anywhere else.
- Sad to say, the old Inca vegetables were soon replaced by Western food crops.