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crops

noun as in vegetation

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They are currently used by sugar beet farmers to protect their crops from virus yellows, a disease spread by aphids.

From BBC

“But when the war began, we couldn’t farm and the animals ate our crops, so we were left with nothing. “

From BBC

It produces heat waves, which often prevent the flowering of the crops, so that destroys their fertility.

From Salon

Streptomycin has been a staple in treating tuberculosis and other infections since the 1940s, while kasugamycin is less known but crucial in agricultural settings to prevent bacterial diseases in crops.

In the new study, the researchers developed standardized measures for production and yield for 144 crops, covering 98 percent of global agricultural land.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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