crop soil degradation and erosion results from crop cultivation on slopes without proper terracing; deforestation www.exxun.com/Comoros/b_mp.html
crop ... s inhabitants live in the capital city; the remainder are mostly nomadic herders. Scanty rainfall limits crop production to fruits and vegetables, and most food must be imported. Djibouti provides services as ... www.exxun.com/Djibouti/e_ec.html
crop ... vigorously expanded sugar production. In the 19th century, cacao eventually surpassed sugar as the main export crop; in the 20th century, nutmeg became the leading export. In 1967, Britain gave Grenada autonomy ... www.exxun.com/Grenada/a_fg.html
crop ... and seafood along with small amounts of peanuts, palm kernels, and timber. Rice is the major crop and staple food. However, intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta ... www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/e_ec.html
crop ... on imported raw materials and fuels. The tiny agricultural sector is highly subsidized and protected, with crop yields among the highest in the world. Usually self sufficient in rice, Japan must import ... www.exxun.com/Japan/e_ec.html
crop ... 2003 - and yielded a potential production of 10,100 metric tons; government conducts the largest independent illicit-crop eradication program in the world; continues as the primary transshipment country for US-bound cocaine ... www.exxun.com/Mexico/i_ti.html
crop ... cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American cocaine bound ... www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
Crop ... snowfields cover 60% of the total area; Spitsbergen Island is the site of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed repository established by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Norwegian Government www.exxun.com/Svalbard/b_mp.html
crop ... former Soviet republics. Only 7% of the land area is arable. Cotton is the most important crop, but this sector is burdened with debt and an obsolete infrastructure. Mineral resources include silver ... www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/e_ec.html
crop ... coffee, and cotton generate about 40% of export earnings with cotton being the most important cash crop. Togo is the world's fourth-largest producer of phosphate. The government's decade-long ... www.exxun.com/Togo/e_ec.html
crop ... illicit cultivation of cannabis and small amounts of opium poppy for domestic consumption; poppy cultivation almost wiped out by government crop eradication program; transit point for heroin precursor chemicals bound for Afghanistan www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/i_ti.html
crop ... in 2005 amounted to 208,500 hectares; Colombia produced slightly more than two-thirds of the worldwide crop, followed by Peru and Bolivia; potential pure cocaine production rose to 900 from 645 metric ... www.exxun.com/World/i_ti.html
cropland cropland www.exxun.com/Guernsey/b_mp.html
cropland hydropower, cropland www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 12.13% permanent crops: 0.21% other: 87.66% (2005) www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 20.1% permanent crops: 4.21% other: 75.69% (2005) www.exxun.com/Albania/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 3.17% permanent crops: 0.28% other: 96.55% (2005) www.exxun.com/Algeria/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 10% permanent crops: 15% other: 75% (2005) www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 2.13% permanent crops: 0% other: 97.87% (2005) www.exxun.com/Andorra/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 2.65% permanent crops: 0.23% other: 97.12% (2005) www.exxun.com/Angola/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds) (2005) www.exxun.com/Anguilla/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (ice 98%, barren rock 2%) (2005) www.exxun.com/Antarctica/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 18.18% permanent crops: 4.55% other: 77.27% (2005) www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 10.03% permanent crops: 0.36% other: 89.61% (2005) www.exxun.com/Argentina/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 16.78% permanent crops: 2.01% other: 81.21% (2005) www.exxun.com/Armenia/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 10.53% permanent crops: 0% other: 89.47% (2005) www.exxun.com/Aruba/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (all grass and sand) (2005) www.exxun.com/AshmoreandCartierIslands/b_mp.html
crops arable land: 6.15% (includes about 27 million hectares of cultivated grassland) permanent crops: 0.04% other: 93.81% (2005) www.exxun.com/Australia/b_mp.html
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