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.
The postcolonial history of Africa has shown that liberation parties harvest a potent crop of "struggle" legitimacy that generally neutralizes opposition for a generation or so.
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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This meant she was unable to use the fertilizer, which led to a poor harvest of her maize crop, which meant less food for her children.
Many farmers say that to cope with the labor shortage last season, they offered higher wages, delayed pruning and harvesting, used mechanization if possible, or failed to harvest some of their crop.
So, for example, chemical pesticide or pollen from genetically engineered plants wafting onto an organic crop from an adjacent field does not cause the harvest to lose its organic status.
Of them, 135 were killed in accidents, giving a higher accidental death rate of one in 16, 000, even though the sugar harvest lasts much longer than that for any other crop.
Now they can harvest in February instead, leaving enough time for a full second crop before the September planting.
Like the pork and beef industries, in the early spring of 2012, the chicken industry believed this summer would yield a bumper corn harvest, and so it upped production levels to utilize this large crop.
The recent surge in sugar prices comes after a bad harvest, that of corn after official warnings of a lower-than-expected crop.
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The company blames the poor harvest in 2012 for the move, together with worries about this year's crop due to recent flooding.
The company's managing director in Spain and Italy, Jose Maria Collantes, estimates that the Spanish olive harvest will be around 50% of what it was last year - and last year was a bumper crop.
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