Meaning of misharvest | Babel Free

Definitions

A poor harvest; a crop failure.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“The use of the profit criterion leads thus to the ridiculous conclusion that a misharvest is better than an abundant crop.”

“In those farming systems the use of livestock is handy or even important as a security against misharvest or other misfortune, but is not a precondition for cultivation (Bosman and Moll, 1995).”

“Then there were misharvests. Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.”

“Furthermore, the population in the Finnish countryside faced hardship in the aftermath of a serious misharvest and hunger catastrophe in the early 1860s.”

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