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crop failure

NOUN
  1. the failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus

How To Use crop failure In A Sentence

  • Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
  • Last month's bad weather was responsible for the crop failure.
  • Bad weather has resulted in crop failure.
  • Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
  • Cold dry periods, glacier expansion and crop failures between 5,800 and 4,900 years ago resulted in deforestation, flooding, silting of irrigation channels, salinisation and the collapse of the Sumerian city states.
  • After that, depending on the region, comes the danger of drought and crop failure.
  • Years of drought, crop failure and migration have meant that land is continually withdrawn from active production.
  • The crop failure spelt disaster for many farmers.
  • Crop failures in 1315, 1316, and 1321, largely due to exceptionally wet summers, overlapped with catastrophic losses of animals as disease - ‘murrain’ - devastated the nation's sheep flocks between 1313 and 1317 and its cattle 1319-21.
  • Another crop failure could result in widespread famine.
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