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Common collocations with crop in American Collocation

crop noun

US /krɑp/

important/main

chief
important
staple
subsistence

Tax revenues were assessed in quantities of the staple crop, rice.

large/successful

abundant
bumper
good

Last year’s favourable monsoon resulted in a bumper crop.

grown for money

cash
commercial
non-food
profitable

The national economy is mainly dependent on three cash crops, which comprise 95 percent of their agricultural exports.

Reeds, white seed, and oziers were all highly profitable crops.

grown without chemicals

organic

At that distance there is low risk of contamination between GM and organic crops.

with changed genes

biotech
genetically engineered
genetically modifed
GM
transgenic

Transgenic crops have been perceived to carry unacceptable risks.

plant a crop

plant
sow

GM crops have been planted at 49 farms.

grow a crop

cultivate
grow
produce

Keeping animals requires more land than cultivating crops.

collect a crop when it has grown

harvest

The site was excavated directly after the potato crop was harvested.

destroy a crop

damage
destroy
devastate
ruin

His family will starve if insects or worms destroy his crops.

supply water to a crop

irrigate
water

Farmers use the water from the lake to irrigate their crops.

grow successfully

grow
ripen
thrive

The Joads were lured by the promise of work picking the crops that thrived in the Californian climate.

fail to grow

fail

When the potato crop failed, hardship followed.