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Crop destruction is the deliberate destruction of crops or agricultural products to render it useless for consumption or processing. It can be made by burning, grinding, dumping into water, or application of chemicals. It should not be confused with crop residue burning, which burns non-edible parts of the crop.
Related to crop destruction is alternate, low-price use of agricultural products. A large portion of the European Union wine surplus has been converted to industrial ethanol.
There can be numerous reasons for crop destruction. In scorched-earth strategy, crops and other useful materials are destroyed to prevent the enemy from gaining hold of them. The strategy of destroying the food supply of the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions.
In government-regulated agriculture, farmers can be required to destroy crops that exceed their production quota. Crops can also be dumped in the street during a public protest; this custom has been common in the European Union. Also, illegal crops, such as opium and cannabis, can be destroyed by law enforcement.
Note that this term does not apply to the burning of crops which are or can be usefully harvested by this means, such as sugar cane.
Cropdestruction is the deliberate destruction of crops or agricultural products to render it useless for consumption or processing. It can be made by...
birds were killed, the emu population persisted and continued to cause cropdestruction. Following World War I, large numbers of discharged veterans who served...
neutral rural population dictates the destruction of civilian crops ... if they are to be hampered by the cropdestruction program, it will be necessary to...
of Agent Blue against crops in an area believed to be controlled by the Viet Cong.[citation needed] Soon after, cropdestruction became an integral part...
pesticides needed on crops. A notable example is the use of wolf spiders in cranberry bogs as a means of controlling unwanted cropdestruction. South Carolina...
defoliation of border areas, security perimeters, and cropdestruction. As the conflict continued, the anti-crop mission took on more prominence, and (along with...
Uganda. While the massacres by Lendu militia ceased in mid-March 2018, "cropdestruction, kidnappings, and killings" continued. The UN estimated that as many...
in ranges varying from 60 to 100 per cent, depending on the crop". The cropdestruction resulted in several increases to the price of food. On 25 April...
due to a greater chance of defoliant exposure. Rainbow Herbicides Cropdestruction Index of environmental articles Zierler, David (2011). Invention of...
from 13% to 75%. Habitat destruction can vastly increase an area's vulnerability to natural disasters like flood and drought, crop failure, spread of disease...
(conflicts with Native Americans, serious illness, death, drought, and cropdestruction). Hard work is the rule, though fun is often made in the midst of it...
onions). Also thinning is used in post harvesting.[citation needed] Cropdestruction Cleaning (forestry) Pruning "Ecological Restoration vs. Thinning"....
spraying program. Agent Green was mixed with Agent Pink and used for cropdestruction. A total of 20,000 gallons of Agent Green were procured. Agent Green's...
species' ability to destroy crops. Because of its propensity for destruction, the fall armyworm's habits and possibilities for crop protection have been studied...
"defoliation and cropdestruction" which fell mostly on the forest of South Vietnam, but was eventually used in Laos as well to kill crops in order to deprive...
sympathies, systematic looting, routine shooting of farm animals and cropdestruction, destruction of religion buildings and public buildings, burning of religious...
rural areas to escape war. Jim Glassman argued that ecological destruction and cropdestruction, including from Agent Orange, produced rural refugees to cities...
conversion of surplus wine into industrial products. Butter mountain Cropdestruction Artificial scarcity Government cheese Wax, Eddy (27 April 2020). "Europe...
Cong led to military leaders ramping up the air war and performing cropdestruction operations to try to starve out the Viet Cong.133 By this point, Gouré...
which included mass arrest, torturing, killing, cattle raiding, food cropdestruction, and looting and burning of villages. The NRA managed to defeat all...
refined its "Row Crop" model early in 1930. Until 1935, the 18–27 was Oliver–Hart-Parr's only row-crop tractor. Many Oliver row-crop models are referred...
participated in any of the following: search and destroy missions, cropdestruction, and POW mistreatment. This event was estimated to have cost the VVAW...
properties, livestock and crops were destroyed. In terms of population affected, in territory flooded, in property loss and cropdestruction, the flood's figures...
also handled at this facility: everything from poisons to chemical cropdestruction. On 20 August 1945 the city was captured by the Soviet Red Army and...
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