| English | French |
| annual crop | culture à cycle annuel |
| artificial environment for crops | artificialisation des cultures |
| cash crop Crops that are grown for sale in the town markets or for export. They include coffee, cocoa, sugar, vegetables, peanuts and non-foods, like tobacco and cotton. Huge areas of countries in the developing world have been turned over to cash crops. Those countries with no mineral or oil resources depend on cash crops for foreign money, so that they can import materials do develop roads, for construction, or to buy Western consumer goods and, indeed, food. However, critics argue that cash crops are planted on land that would otherwise be used to grow food for the local community and say this is a cause of world famine. Cash crops, such as peanuts, can ruin the land if it is not left fallow after six years of harvests. Moreover, if the best agricultural land is used for cash crops, local farmers are forced to use marginal land to grow food for local consumption, and this has a further dramatic effect on the environment | culture industrielle |
| cash crop | culture industrielle |
| cash crop | culture de vente |
| centre of crop diversity | centre de diversité |
| contour cropping | culture en contour |
| contour cropping | culture étagée |
| contour cropping | culture en bandes de niveau |
| crop biomass | biomasse des cultures |
| crop damage | dégât aux cultures |
| crop ecology | écologie des cultures |
| crop ecology | écologie des cultures agricoles |
| crop fractionation | fractionnement des cultures |
| crop pest | organismes nuisibles aux végétaux |
| crop production The act or process of yielding produce from farmland, for livestock or human consumption | production végétale |
| crop protection The problem of crop protection has changed dramatically since 1945. There is now a whole arsenal of chemicals with which to combat agricultural pests and diseases, but this development has itself many drawbacks. Such sophisticated techniques are available only to a minority of farmers; in most parts of the world the standard of crop protection remains abysmally low. In addition, modern crop protection methods have been criticized for relying too heavily on chemical control. Biological controls, both natural and contrived, have been neglected. In some cases involving misuse of agricultural chemicals, crops must be protected from the very measures intended for their protection. Meanwhile previously localized pests and diseases continue to spread worldwide | protection des cultures |
| crop residues | résidus de récolte |
| crop rotation An agricultural technique in which, season after season, each field is sown with crop plants in a regular rotation, each crop being repeated at intervals of several years. Crop rotation minimizes the risks of depleting the soil of particular nutrients. In rotation systems, a grain crop is often grown the first year, followed by a leafy-vegetable crop in the second year, and a pasture crop in the third. The last usually contains legumes; such plants can restore nitrogen to the soil. Notwithstanding, high yields tend to depend upon the continued addition of chemical fertilizers to the soil | rotation des cultures |
| crop rotation | assolement |
| crop treatment | traitement des cultures |
| crop treatment Use of chemicals in order to avoid damage of crops by insects or weeds | traitement des cultures |
| crop waste | résidus de cultures |
| crop waste Any unusable portion of plant matter left in a field after harvest | résidus de cultures |
| Dangerous to bees/To protect bees and other pollinating insects do not apply to crop plants when in flower/Do not use where bees are actively foraging/Remove or cover beehives during application and for state time after treatment/Do not apply when flowering weeds are present/Remove weeds before flowering/Do not apply before state time | Dangereux pour les abeilles/Pour protéger les abeilles et autres insectes pollinisateurs, ne pas appliquer durant la floraison/Ne pas utiliser en présence d'abeilles/Retirer ou couvrir les ruches pendant l'application et indiquer la période après traitement/Ne pas appliquer lorsque des adventices en fleur sont présentes/Enlever les adventices avant leur floraison/Ne pas appliquer avant indiquer la date |
| drought-resistant crop | culture xérophyle |
| drought-resistant crop | culture résistante à la sécheresse |
| drought-tolerant crop | culture xérophyle |
| drought-tolerant crop | culture résistante à la sécheresse |
| equipment for crop protection | matériel de traitement agropharmaceutique |
| European Crop Protection Association | Association européenne de protection des cultures |
| forage crop Cultivation of crops for consumption by livestock | culture fourragère |
| fuel crop | culture énergétique |
| industrial crop Any crop that provides materials for industrial processes and products such as soybeans, cotton (lint and seed), flax, and tobacco | culture industrielle |
| infestation of crops | infestation des cultures |
| infestation of crops Invasion of crop by parasites. Among vertebrate animals, many crop pests are mammals, especially in the order of rodents and birds. Among invertebrates, certain species of gastropods and a large number of roundworms from the class of nematodes harm crops. The most varied and numerous species of crop pests are arthropods-insects, arachnids and some species of millipedes and crustaceans. Diseases vary from viral, bacterial, and nutritional to fungal, environmental and non-specific. The FAO has estimated that annual worldwide losses done by plant pests and diseases amount to approximately 20-25% of the potential worldwide yield of food crops | infestation des cultures |
| infestation of crops | infestation des aliments et des récoltes |
| International Centre for Underutilised Crops | Centre international pour le développement des cultures sous-utilisées |
| long-term critical level of ozone for crops | niveau critique à long terme d'ozone pour les cultures |
| root crop Plants which store edible material in a root, corm or tuber; root crops used as food vegetables or fodder include carrots, parsnips, swedes and turnips; starchy root crops include potatoes, cassavas and yams | plante sarclée |
