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A majority of farming operations in Ventura County are smaller growers that might not have crop insurance or are underinsured because fire coverage is not available for all farms.

But income was well down last year and this year will be even worse, says factory owner Abd al-Rahman Khalifa, as even fewer farmers are able to harvest their crop owing to attacks by settlers.

One of them is the practice of farmers burning crop remains to clear their fields quickly to sow seeds for the next yield.

This loss of phosphorus can potentially lead to decreased crop yields, which could drive up the cost of food, the researchers explained.

Disastrously, the results of his dominance over Soviet science included repeated crop failures.