21.   The flipside is that factories are left without buffers when crops fail or strikes crush production, or demand suddenly rises.

22.   Wells will dry up and crops fail.

23.   When crops failed or cotton prices hit rock bottom, our yearlong dreams turned dead-gray with the collards in the garden.

24.   All was fine until one day his crops failed.

25.   Consequently, the lowland farmers were suffering from drought and their crops were failing.

26.   Crops fail, fish and birds die in the heat and the zinc roofing used to cover shanties rusts more quickly, they say.

27.   Crops largely have failed and demand for lumber has fallen.

28.   Farmers say crop will fail if water is not supplied, NEW STRAITS TIMES-

29.   Kabano said banana and vegetable crops have failed across the Carterets.

30.   Last year he received a letter from his mother asking him to come home to help the family financially, as the rice crop had failed.