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cultivate

[′kəl·tə‚vāt]
(agriculture)
To prepare soil for the raising of crops.
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For Afghanistan, the key facts are clear: The Salma Dam will increase cultivatable land from 35,000 hectares to 80,000 hectares.
It is also suggested that urban growth should be restrained from vegetation and cultivatable lands.
Call on the national government to move closer to the conflict affected areas by providing basic services to them including road, drinking water, health centre, agricultural activities if it is cultivatable land and established presence of law enforcement agencies.
In a global model of potential suitability, the potential cultivatable range of switchgrass was very broad, both with and without irrigation inputs (Barney and DiTomaso 2010b, 2011; see fig.
Therapeutic landscapes studies are evoked by describing the utilization of a locally available and readily cultivatable dioecious herb in medical practices in Washington State and by describing relevant place-based characteristics at a site of delivery.
Moreover, 15% of Chechnya's cultivatable soil was covered by mines and almost 90% of Chechen men found themselves without jobs.
(61) The frantic search for "supplies" (zagotovki) of cultivatable land was the consequence of the pressing need to settle the numerous irregular immigrants who had arrived in the great wave of transfers between 1907 and 1909.
The children with CHD had higher colonisation of MS at 12 months of age, and MS constituted a higher proportion of the total cultivatable oral microflora.
However, as land was left in fallow and as cultivatable land became scarcer, area for cultivation was sought farther from the settlements on steep slope, while in other areas the environment dictated where production could occur.
The climate, soil type and vegetation are intimately related to each other and their integration support vegetatal cover in all the vacant open soil patches, cultivatable fields and land cleared for housing enterprises in the City.
In the case of exotic species, such as grass and cultivatable species, local biodiversity is greatly decreased (FEARNSIDE, 2001) and the development of new cultures, such as sugar-cane and eucalyptus, are being encouraged in the region.
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