food crop

基本解釋

As rice is the most important food crop in the world and maize is the main form of animal feed, these decisions could have a big impact.
由于水稻是世界上最重要糧食作物，而玉米是動(dòng)物的主要食物，這些決定可能有重大影響。
As a food crop, corn is also far more damaging to the environment than other crops, such as soybeans, because it uses more pesticides and fertiliser.
作為一種糧食作物，玉米比大豆等其他作物對(duì)環(huán)境影響更大，因?yàn)樗枰嗟姆柿虾蜌⑾x(chóng)劑。
For example, if genetic engineering simply moves a gene for a common food ingredient from one safe food crop to another, this does not expose consumers to new components in their food supply.
例如，如果基因工程單單從一種安全糧食作物的一種普通食物成分的基因轉(zhuǎn)移到另一種作物，這并不使消費(fèi)者受到事物供給中新成分的影響。

Mr.Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.
Economists blamed the crisis on different causes, including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food-crop lands for biofuel production.
The plant is a major source of food energy and a major food security crop.

Seventy-five per cent of the food crop varieties we once grew have disappeared from our fields in the last 100 years.
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