misharvest

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A poor harvest

   A poor harvest; a crop failure.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To harvest the wrong thing or at the wrong time.

   • The Malian state offered the village a gift in July 1998 to try to reduce the effects of the famine caused by misharvesting at the beginning of that year.
   • The rate of misharvesting in which the robot harvested other fruits which did not adjoin the targeted fruit was 12% when there were no adjoining fruits, and 11% if adjoining fruits were in front of or beside the targeted fruit.

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