Kapuas
Kapuas , river, c.710 mi (1,140 km) long, rising in the mountains of central Borneo and flowing SW through W Kalimantan, Indonesia, to the South China Sea near Pontianak. Its valley is intensively cultivated; rice is the chief crop. The river is navigable for c.560 mi (900 km).
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Tapestry hillside in just 3.5 years; when the Adamsons of La Jolla started, it was only ice plant. (Evelyn and Bill Adamson)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 4/1/1984; 644 words
; ...ornamental trees and shrubs, and fruit trees, as well as annual and perennial flowers and vegetables, the hillside has lush, intensively cultivated look--but it takes only 2 to 3 hours a week to maintain and uses relatively little water. Most of the ground covers...
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Stretching the food budget. (feeding a large family on a small budget)
Magazine article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal; 9/1/1994; ; 519 words
; ...a time, as your resources permit. A well conditioned raised bed of modest size (say three feet by 30 feet) which is intensively cultivated may produce more usable vegetables than a larger, but poorly prepared traditional garden. Also, raised beds are particularly...
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Importers and processors alliance seeks sanity in inspection process: troubles over discovery of forbidden antibiotics in imported seafood have led to draconian measures that unfairly penalize suppliers and processors alike. SIPA works to solve problem.(Seafood Importers and Processors Alliance)
Magazine article from: Quick Frozen Foods International; 4/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...and no reason for malice is suspected (BSE toxin, pathogenic viruses and bacteria). Especially for the importers of intensively cultivated food products such as poultry and seafood, business has been very difficult. Forbidden chemicals like chloramphenicol...
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 "Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England)")
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Concern at lack of open space.
Newspaper article from: Spalding Guardian & Lincs Free Press (Spalding, England); 10/18/2006; 378 words
; ...space to run about, climb trees, walk a dog, kick a ball and fly a kite, especially as the surrounding countryside is so intensively cultivated. Again the contrast with Crowland is marked. There, just two or three minutes' walk from the centre, is green open ground...
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Floating through Europe. (author's barge cruise from Strasbourg to Nancy)
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/31/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...takes us on a drive through the Alsatian hill country. (Robert is off in telephonic pursuit of a cook.) The land is intensively cultivated: corn fields interspersed with orchards, large rolls of hay, fields of dried sunflowers, pastures, and vineyards. Vineyards...
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The decline of syrah.
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...old, after which there are vines that die. It is very strange to note that in Drome and Rhone, where Syrah has been intensively cultivated for a long time, the decline is practically nonexistent. Mr. Garnier of the Drome Chamber of Agriculture has not seen...
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Grain Inspectors Find StarLink Corn In 9 Percent of Samples Taken Since November 15.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: Food & Drink Weekly; 5/7/2001; 434 words
; ...said John C. Giler, chief of the service's policies and procedures branch. In the Midwest, where StarLink was more intensively cultivated, up to 16 percent of samples tested positive, he said. Overall, he said, the share of positive tests has remained steady...
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Pontianak
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, city (1990 pop. 398,357), capital of West Kalimantan prov., W Borneo, Indonesia, at the mouth of a small stream in the Kapuas delta near the west coast. The chief city of W Borneo and an important port, it serves an area producing rubber, palm oil, sugar...
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Borneo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Many of the rivers are navigable to small craft, however, and provide access into the interior. The largest rivers are the Kapuas in the west and the Barito in the south. The coastal area is generally swampy and fringed with mangrove forests. Banjarmasin...
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