crop failure

基本解釋

Commodity brokers in the Corn Exchange reacted swiftly to news about crop failure in N.America.
谷物交易所的商品經(jīng)紀(jì)人對北美作物歉收的消息做出迅速反應(yīng)。
For instance, 1800, 1812, 1821, 1836 and 1856 were years of total crop failure and extreme suffering.
比如說，1800，1812，1821，1836和1856，農(nóng)作物幾乎顆粒無收，生存環(huán)境極端惡劣。
In this region, drought, crop failure, livestock deaths, and human starvation ravage the Horn of Africa in the worst food security crisis experienced in decades.
這個區(qū)域正經(jīng)歷幾十年來最嚴(yán)重的糧食安全危機，干旱、作物歉收、牲畜死亡以及人類饑荒在肆虐非洲之角。

When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.
Ireland in the eighteen forties suffered one crop failure after another.

Farmers pay an extra 5% to insure a bag of seed, fertiliser or other things like herbicide against crop failure.
ECONOMIST: Insuring crops with a mobile phone
In Zimbabwe , a minister in President Robert Mugabe's government admitted that the forcible seizure of mostly white-owned farms had contributed to the current massive crop failure in the country.
ECONOMIST: A grand illusion