| Until the colonists managed to cultivate a lucrative staple crop, however, profits were not immediately forthcoming. |
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| Cowpeas are a staple crop eaten in Africa as a dry bean, snap bean, or raw salad green. |
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| When potatoes became a staple crop in Ireland in the early 1600s, many home-distillers began using them as well as grains. |
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| His family's financial life revolves around both this staple crop and another tangible asset: gold. |
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| Women tended the pigs, planted the staple crop of sweet potatoes and other foodstuffs such as greens and taro, and weeded and harvested the garden plot. |
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| The staple crop of cassava is forecast to produce 946 000 tonnes this year. |
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| Cassava is an important staple crop and one of the most strategic crops throughout the tropical world. |
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| The dominant staple crop is cassava, with banana and sweet potato providing alternative options on a minor scale. |
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| Since bananas are a staple crop and a major export in developing countries, Black Sigatoka is placing a heavy toll on their food security and export economies. |
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| The Iru were sedentary hoe cultivators, for whom the staple crop was millet. |
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| Currently wheat is being tested as one staple crop for planetary food systems. |
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| This staple crop is grown on an area of around 44 million ha in some 100 countries. |
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| Potatoes are a staple crop in 130 countries and rank fourth in production after wheat, maize, and rice. |
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| Fields within sight of the village are high with millet, the staple crop, grown with 18 tonnes of seed delivered earlier this year. |
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| Rice is already the main staple crop for over 3 billion people, half the earth's population. |
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| However, the mostly grown crop is maize, the main staple crop, seconded by tobacco, the main cash crop. |
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| Something big was happening in these agricultural fields of Mali, anyone could see that. Two plots of sorghum, a staple crop across sub-Saharan Africa, reached up to the clear blue sky. |
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| Production of maize, Malawi's most important staple crop, is estimated at nearly 1.3 million tonnes this year, the lowest in a decade and around 26 percent less than last year's relatively poor harvest. |
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| The seed component is crucial. Wheat is the staple crop and, as seeds planted in winter are higher yielding than those planted in spring, the wheat seed needs to be procured and distributed speedily. |
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| With technical help, better irrigation and improved seeds and fertilizer, staple crop yields have nearly tripled and new vitamin A-rich foods are also being produced, including amaranth and baobab leaves. |
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| Farmers' financial and food security can be severely affected, while consumers face hunger if post-harvest losses of an important staple crop occur on a wide scale in the area where they live. |
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| For example, science may have discovered new technologies that can greatly improve the nutritional value of a traditional staple crop in Eastern Africa. |
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| Tobacco was an important early crop during the colonial era, but was eventually overtaken by sugarcane production as the region's staple crop. |
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| The potato holds a very important role as an internally consumed staple crop. |
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| It has since spread around the world and become a staple crop in many countries. |
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| Pearl millet is a staple crop for people in the semi-arid tropics. |
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| As a staple crop, biotech brinjal could also benefit millions of Indian consumers, who would have improved product quality and greater choice in the marketplace. |
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| The modern Miskito are agricultural, their staple crop being cassava. |
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| Millet is their major staple crop, cotton their economic mainstay. |
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| The Commissioner for Agriculture, Femi Abolarin, said that the World Bank mission is aimed at concretising the bank s support to the staple crop processing zone in Alape. |
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