How To Use Cultivable In A Sentence
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The little cultivable lands we have remaining are under threat because as far as the greedy are concerned, housing developments and commerce are more profitable, hence important, than producing food.
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Nothing in rural France is more reprehensible than a piece of cultivable ground left unattended.
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The cultivable area of the country no longer suffices to sustain the population.
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I remember visits to the resettlement sites, where land was uncultivable, water salty, fodder for domestic animals unavailable and communities fragmented.
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In their undeveloped corner of the Himalayas, these people still dress in traditional tribal clothes, barter their produce and scratch a living from land that would be discarded as uncultivable in most Western countries.
Daniel Keeler: The Big Green Gamble
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The inter-annual variation in rainfall and its monthly fluctuation during the season pose uncertainty concerning the success of winter crops, so that only half of the cultivable area is cultivated annually.
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For the sea, the uncultivable sea, as Homer calls it, is itself a road, whereas on earth, whether it be mountain or desert or field, roads have first painfully to be made.
Progress and History
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Mecca Valley described as an “uncultivable valley” Abraham 14/37 had an area of desert quality and its climate was hot and dry.
Campaigning In The Bull Ring
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One can stand at these sites and almost go back thousands of years and visualize the strenuous efforts required to simply exist in this waterless, uncultivable, inhospitable land.
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It has a small cultivable area to be irrigated by these rivers.
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Though the pines themselves have not been planted much longer than a hundred years, they now appear as the only relics of a lonely and rather bare tract of uncultivable desert.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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Elevation can modify soil quality, particularly in the case of a valley or depression (nkova) where the ground will retain humidity longer and so be productive even when land of the same soil type in a higher area is rendered uncultivable because of drought.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Only a fifth of Ralegan Siddhi's land was cultivable when he was a child, Vijay Hazare said, but now almost all land has valuable crops grown on it.
Anna Hazare: the divisive face of a new India | profile
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In his new incarnation as a gentleman farmer, Villa's property became a model farm with 4000 acres of cultivable land.
Durango, Durango
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With agriculture the backbone of socio-economic development on the continent, uncleared mines have rendered vast tracts of land uncultivable, said Chinamasa.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Imagine a country that relies heavily on agriculture, and yet has produced no data on the quality of cultivable land since the 1970s.
The politics of Egypt's feeble statistics
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# About 27,242 hectares of cultivable land will be lost.
Global Voices in English » Bangladesh, India: No To Tipaimukh Dam
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A thousand times that day, in the dark swamp, on the wide prairie, or under his rush-thatch on the lake-side, he tortured himself with one question: Why had she -- Zoséphine -- reached away out from Carancro to buy the uncultivable and primeval wilderness round about his lonely hiding-place?
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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Cooper says: "We cannot say positively that any plant is uncultivable ANYWHERE until it has been tried;" and this seems to be even more true of wild than of domesticated vegetation.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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Only lithic mulching produced enough nutrients—just barely—to make Rapa Nui's terrible soil cultivable.
Don't Blame the Natives
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In this way the extent of Chaldaea has been at times largely increased, a vast tract being rendered cultivable, which is otherwise either swamp or desert.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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The worst-hit had been the maize crop, which registered a loss in 18,220 hectares of land, against the total cultivable land of 22,499 hectares in the district.
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The great pine forests below were a cheerful contrast to the illimitable fields of ice and snow and uncultivable lands which they had so lately traversed.
Doctor Jones' Picnic
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The displaced families are agreeable to the idea of resettlement provided their basic demands, of cultivable land and community relocation, are met.
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To make this land cultivable, the productive approach is through watershed development.
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Much of the land allocated proved uncultivable - because it was affected by salinity; waterlogged, unleveled or had multiple ownership claims - which led to protracted legal battles.
Caroline Gluck: HELPING THE LANDLESS BECOME LANDOWNERS
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Rational Review
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The French then held it for a century but after Napoleon's defeat it became a British colony and it was the British who introduced the sugar cane which still covers 90 per cent of the cultivable land.
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thickets of indigenous trees...on uncultivable land
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Hence every early community stands, to start with, near its own cultivable territory, usually a broad river-valley, an alluvial plain, a 'carse' or lowland, for uplands as yet were incapable of tillage by the primitive agriculture of those early epochs.
Science in Arcady
