ADJ
- agricultural
- cash, commercial, export
- fodder, food, forage
- Fodder crops are used to feed livestock
- subsistence
- staple
- traditional
- the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops for export
- spring, winter
- standing
- Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops
- arable, cereal, fruit, root, vegetable
VERB + CROP
- grow, produce
- Most of the farmers grow arable crops
- plant, sow
- bring in, gather, harvest, reap
- damage, destroy
- Summer flash floods destroyed the crops
- rotate
- spray
- Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage
CROP + VERB
- fail
- Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed
CROP + NOUN
- rotation
- Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion
- damage, failure
- production, yield
- to boost crop yields
- spraying
ADJ
- abundant, bumper, excellent, good, heavy, record
- poor
- early
- Bring strawberry plants indoors for an early crop
- potato, rice, etc.
VERB + CROP
- gather, get, harvest, have, reap
- a record crop was harvested We had a very good crop of apples last year
- bear, produce, yield
- It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop