Crop and Harvest: can anyone explain the difference between these two words?

Question

I am not a native and I find it so hard to explain this in English to my sts. I can not show pictures during the class, I just have to explain and provide examples but I don't know because I myself don't understand well the difference between them.

I appreciate if you can provide good examples and a good explanation. Thanks.

Answer 1

crop -
1. Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group:
Wheat is a common crop.

2. The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place:
The orchard produced a huge crop of apples last year.

harvest:
–noun
1. Also, har·vest·ing. the gathering of crops.
2. the season when ripened crops are gathered.
3. a crop or yield of one growing season.
4. a supply of anything gathered at maturity and stored: a harvest of wheat.

–verb (used with object)
1. to gather (a crop or the like); reap.
2. to gather the crop from:
To harvest the fields.
3. to catch, take, or remove for use:
Fishermen harvested hundreds of salmon from the river.
harvest:

verb (used without object)
1. to gather a crop; reap.

Example:
The farmer will harvest (gather, collect, pick) his crop (the ripened fruit) of apples and send them to market. It has been a good growing season and he will have a large harvest (amount of produce) to sell.

Answer 2

A crop is what you plant, while a harvest is what you reap. For example, a farmer would plant a crop of corn and tend his crop throughout the season, and then sell his harvest in the fall.

Answer 3

The crop is the fruit of what you planted. Harvest is when you gather the fruit.

Crop is a noun. Harvest is a verb. "I am now going out to harvest my crop."

Answer 4

Harvest can be described as the mature form of the crop.

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