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No bees could live in single-crop fields or orchards that go for miles in every direction.
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The milpa is an elaboration of this natural situation, unlike ordinary farms, which involve single-crop expanses of a sort rarely observed in unplowed landscapes.
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In brief: ethanol evaporates more than gasoline, releasing more smog-causing hydrocarbons; also, the energy intensity of producing ethanol, plus the potential damage to soil from single-crop farms, pose environmental threats in themselves.
Tim Carney: Follow The Money: In Washington, Everyone's Got An Agenda 2008
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Like families, single-crop plantations are stamped with nearly identical genes.
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History is rife with single-crop catastrophes, from the locust storms of Biblical Egypt to the Irish potato famine.
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Moreover, Banda's policy of single-crop cultivation left a legacy of depleted soils and one of the worst crop-yield averages on earth.
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To say that it is single-crop is to blatantly distort the truth.
‘We will give blood, not our land’ - The battle for Singur has began Abhay N 2006
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To say that it is single-crop is to blatantly distort the truth.
Archive 2006-11-01 Abhay N 2006
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Whether rice-fish culture can substitute for single-crop rice production depends on its relative economic benefit.
Chapter 7 1995
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Net profit was 1.3 times that of single-crop rice production, 4.5% higher than adult fish culture, and 36.3% higher than fingerling culture.
Chapter 7 1995
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