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If a crop or plant is having a bad season and needs pesticide, the community will stop growing it and go without.
BBC: In Oaxaca, a community unchanged
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Finally, as our tale draws closer to its conclusion, we find that the residents of the kingdom of Fairyland at Foggy Bottom have now become so fat and lazy that no one wants to work any more, even if there was a way to plant and harvest a crop.
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Back in March, a group of students from across the country joined First Lady Michelle Obama to plant a new crop in the White House garden.
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Ernest Girouard Jr. said he was unable to plant a quarter of his crop.
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We all need to eat after all and it takes quite some time, many months at least, to plant and harvest a new food crop.
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Collectively, CGIAR centres maintain 600, 000 plant varieties in crop genebanks in a global effort to conserve agricultural biodiversity.
BBC: Seeds destined for the 'doomsday' vault (Image: IITA)
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In the early 1970s, for example, the cassava mealybug, a pale, flat, plant-eating insect, was destroying the staple crop of 200 million Africans.
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The results of the experiments, reported in the journal Science, show that the modified plant can thrive even when salt levels are twice the amount that would kill a normal crop of corn.
BBC: GM plant battles salt