Crop

Crops are living plants grown by farmers. Most crops are foods such as grain, vegetables, or fruit. Some crops are for drugs, such as quinine, or fibers...

A cash crop is a crop that is grown to be sold on the market. This is different from a subsistence crop which is grown for the personal use of the farmer...

Rabi crops are a type of crop grown in the winter and harvested in the spring in the South Asia. The word means spring in the Arabic language. It is also...

that have a crop, the crop is used to temporarily store food. Not all birds have a crop. In adult doves and pigeons, the crop can produce crop milk to feed...

A crop top (or a belly shirt, tummy top, or half shirt) is a kind of shirt. Crop tops do not cover all of the middle section of the wearer's body. A person...

Crop milk is a way of feeding from the crop of parent birds, by regurgitating to young birds. They are found among all pigeons and doves where they are...

Vintage Crop (1 March 1987 – 14 July 2014) was a Thoroughbred racehorse. In 1993, he won the Melbourne Cup, becoming the first non-Australian bred/trained...

Crop protection is a branch of horticulture, aimed at protecting crops. This is done so that the yield of the crop does not diminish. Common approaches...

Crop rotation is a practice used in farming. It involves the planting of different seeds on the same land in different years or seasons, using a set pattern...

many other terms to describe these crops. Usually, these crops are underused, because there are other, similar crops that have better properties, such...

is growing two or more crops next to each other at the same time. The main purpose of intercropping is to produce more crops in a given area. It also...

Farming is growing crops and keeping animals for food and raw materials. Farming is a major part of agriculture. Farming started thousands of years ago...

which normally only one type of crop is grown. Plantations grow cash crops, mostly for export, and less for local use. Crops grown on plantations include...

paper, cardboard and cutlery. This crop requires high temperature and high rainfall. In areas of low rainfall this crop is cultivated with the help of irrigation...

farmers. They can do this by picking crops. Crop failure (also known as harvest failure) is a loss or reduced crop yield due to plants being damaged, killed...

how and where crop plants evolved. He devoted his life to agriculture: the study and improvement of wheat, corn, and other cereal crops. By 1940, Vavilov...

been a need to keep crops free from pests. In order to get best results from food production there was always need to protect crops from competing plants...

that harvests crops. Its name comes from doing three separate parts of harvesting crops at once: reaping: cutting and collecting crops when they are ready...

Monoculture is growing a single crop in a large area. Farmers decide what is the best crop, and grow only that. This is very common in modern agriculture...

part of the Midwestern United States. It is where corn has been predominant crop, since the 1850s. Corn replaced native tall grasses there. The area includes...