21.   One tractor for every two farmers, seed and fertilizer could get them started on spices and other profitable crops, they said.

22.   Researchers had been trying to develop a more profitable crop for growers when they discovered that Indian rice grass contains no gluten.

23.   That has to change if farmers want a profitable crop, contends horticulturist Bruce H. Barritt.

24.   The peasants say coca leaf is their only profitable crop.

25.   They were harvesting a profitable crop and would have made tens of thousands of dollars in the coming months.

26.   For strategic reasons, the Chinese government requires farmers to raise grain instead of more profitable crops, subsidising prices in partial compensation.

27.   Another clause on the fight against drug trafficking will be difficult to enforce when cannabis is a profitable crop for the likes of the Rif region of Morocco.

28.   Cotton production took a beating from the combined effects of natural disasters, epidemics and the abandonment by millions of farmers who switched to more profitable crops.

29.   Farmers in Jiaozhou in Henan province have traditionally grown bamboo for the Beijing pandas, but they now turning to more profitable crops, the report said.