11. ...the variety of food crops and flora which now exists in Dominica. 12. Staple food crops are maize, sorghum and wheat. 13. In some Third World countries there is an increasing danger that fuel crops are replacing traditional food crops. 14. First, the trickle-down fertilizer hypothesis predicts that local food crops will benefit from increased fertilizer use on the cash crop. 15. In the study area what actually happened was that food crops were displaced from the head to the end of the fertilizer rotation in more than half the cases. 16. Finally, the complementarity thesis predicts that services and subsidies for export crops will also benefit food crops. 17. The economic consequences for food crops and other plants of the resulting increase in ultraviolet radiation have received less attention. 18. British farmers are growing too few varieties of the main food crops, according to research by the Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Environment Alliance. 19. And in Italy, he was pelted with soybeans by nude demonstrators opposed to U.S. genetic engineering in food crops. 20. Assorted victuals thrive even as food crops for us hot-weather growers fade into faraway memory. |