crop failure

基本解释

Commodity brokers in the Corn Exchange reacted swiftly to news about crop failure in N.America.
谷物交易所的商品经纪人对北美作物歉收的消息做出迅速反应。
For instance, 1800, 1812, 1821, 1836 and 1856 were years of total crop failure and extreme suffering.
比如说，1800，1812，1821，1836和1856，农作物几乎颗粒无收，生存环境极端恶劣。
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.
这个区域正经历几十年来最严重的粮食安全危机，干旱、作物歉收、牲畜死亡以及人类饥荒在肆虐非洲之角。

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