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Crop

Meaning in agriculture, with examples

/krɑːp/nounCore term

In agriculture, crop means: A plant grown on a large scale for food, feed, fiber or income, such as wheat, cotton or tomatoes; also the amount of it gathered in one season.

In Turkish: ürün, ekin, bitkisel ürün, mahsul

How it is used

The most basic word in farming. Farmers grow, plant and harvest crops; advisers talk about the main crop, cash crops, field crops and crop losses. It is countable: 'two crops a year' means two harvests from the same land.

Example sentences

  1. Cotton is still the main crop on most farms in the Harran Plain.

  2. After the wheat harvest, some farmers plant a second crop of maize for silage.

Common collocations

  • grow a crop
  • main crop
  • cash crop
  • second crop
  • crop losses
  • yieldThe amount of crop, milk or other product obtained from a given area or animal, usually given as tonnes per hectare or kilograms per decare.
  • harvestThe work of gathering a ripe crop from the field, the time of year when this happens, or the total amount gathered.
  • crop rotationThe practice of growing different crops on the same field in a planned order over several seasons to keep the soil healthy and reduce pests, diseases and weeds.
  • varietyA named type of a crop plant with particular features, such as yield, quality, earliness or disease resistance, developed by breeders and sold as seed or plants.
  • cerealA grass grown for its edible grain, such as wheat, barley, maize, rice, oats or rye; also the grain itself.

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