Examples of Food crop in a sentence
Food crop producers are characterized as having uneconomically small farms, low production and productivity levels, limited incorporation of new technologies, a high presence of small subsistence farming and a low recruitment and replacement rate (an ageing population group).
Food crop producers receive no income from export crops, but export crop producers do receive some income from food crops; for example, many farmers raise food crops on farms where the primary good is cocoa or coffee.
Food crop production, on the other hand, is quite low, contributing less than 8% to national production (SRID, 2010) - which may be due to the lower revenues when compared to other crops (cocoa, coconut, etc.).
Food crop production is the main source of livelihood for over 75 percent of the work force.
Food crop prices (including rice) are expected to remain high in 2008 and 2009 and then begin to decline as supply and demand respond to high prices; however, they are likely to remain well above the 2004 levels through 2015 for most food crops (Table 1).
Food crop agriculture is carried out through shifting cultivation and subsistence farming, mainly managed by elderly people or women in the form of private village and peri-urban farms.
Food crop production estimates for Malawi’s eight ADDs and for the country as a whole are presented in Tables 2, 3 and A2–A4.
Food crop harvests were for the most part negligible (except for rice and maize).
Food crop farmers are somewhat insulated from these impacts, largely because their incomes and expenditures are in the non-tradeable sector although their increased incomes would be lower than others, further exacerbating income inequality.
Food crop production was also expected to respond to incentives by increasing at an annual rate of around 3%, broadly in line with the population increase.