11.   Once in Port-au-Prince, many find surviving from day to day as difficult as raising a crop in the depleted soil.

12.   Over the next decade farmers here modernized farming so much that raising crops was no longer a full-time job.

13.   Prices plunged because the government also raised its crops being harvested by other major producing countries.

14.   Steep schoolchildren in the belief that they are entitled to much but responsible for little, and you raise a crop of irresponsible and demanding adolescents.

15.   The eroding, thin soil has worn out in many places, making expensive fertilizer and other farm products essential to raising crops.

16.   The Spaniards forced the native Arawak Indians to mine the gold and raise crops.

17.   They usually picked a scrap of land too poor to raise a crop yet convenient enough for visiting, cleanup, religious services, even picnics.

18.   Using hog wastes to fertilize his fields will cut down on how much he must spend to raise a crop, Sid Shriwise said.

19.   After three years of drought, few villages have seed left to replant and most villages will rely on international aid agencies to try again to raise crops.