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fallow land
fallow land cropland that is not seeded for a season; it may or may not be plowed. The land may be cultivated or chemically treated for control of weeds and other pests or may be left unaltered. Allowing land to lie fallow serves to accumulate moisture in dry regions (see dry farming ) or to check... Read more |
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cultivation
cultivation tilling or manipulation of the soil, done primarily to eliminate weeds that compete with crops for water and nutrients. Cultivation may be used in crusted soils to increase soil aeration and infiltration of water; it may also be used to move soil to or away from plants as desired.... Read more |
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wireworm
wireworm elongate, cylindrical larva of the click beetle . Most wireworms are hard and brown, but members of some species are soft and whitish. Wireworms live in rotten wood or in the ground and feed on roots and seeds, injuring potatoes, grasses, and a wide variety of leguminous field crops. They... Read more |
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celery
celery biennial plant ( Apium graveolens ) of the family Umbelliferae ( parsley family), of wide distribution in the wild state throughout the north temperate Old World and much cultivated also in America. It was first cultivated as a medicinal, then (during the Middle Ages) as a flavoring, and... Read more |
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pest
pest Any of various organisms, such as fungi, insects, rodents, and plants, that harm crops or livestock or otherwise interfere with the wellbeing of human beings. Weeds are plant pests that grow where they are not wanted – often on cultivated land, where they compete with crop plants for... Read more |
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Crops
Crops Crops are plants or animals or their products cultivated (grown, tended, and harvested) by humans as a source of food, materials, or energy. Humans are rather particular in their choice of crops. Though they select a wide range of useful species of plants and animals to raise, there are vast... Read more |
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Black Death
Black Death An epidemic of catastrophic proportions, the Black Death first struck England in the summer of 1348. This first outbreak probably killed between a third and a half of the population, as is shown by figures showing death rates for the clergy, and for peasant landholders. It is usually... Read more |
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Gusii
Gusii ETHNONYMS: Abagusii, Kisii, Kossowa, Wakisii Orientation Identification. "Gusii" or "Abagusii" is the people's name for themselves. A Gusii individual is an Omogusii." "Kisii" is the Swahili name that the British colonial administration used, and it is still the common name used... Read more |
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vineyard
vineyard land on which cultivation of the grape —known as viticulture—takes place. As many as 40 varieties of grape, Vitis vinifera, are known. The few that grow wild are generally not used; all domesticated varieties require careful cultivation to produce good fruit. While the... Read more |
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Valuation of soil erosion effects in bench terrace, Puertorican terrace and...
...instruments have been used by the government...1993). Shifting cultivation, locally known...cut and bum the fallow vegetation, cultivate...enough arable land was available to use land in this fashion...population pressure on ... |
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Conservation Farming as an Alternative to Shifting Cultivation in Meghalaya:...
...predominance of shifting cultivation. Shifting cultivation...cycle in the same land which extended...bench terraces, half moon terraces...horticulture and natural fallow farming systems...for 177 days and used for fish ... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Let them eat snow peas. (cash crops rather than food are grown in most poor...
...snow peas The best land in Ethiopia is used to grow coffee; in Sudan it is used to grow cotton. Other...or by bringing fallow land and under cultivation. (It remains to...In the Philippines half the people ... |
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Green fuels for France. (establishment of a national agency for biomass...
...for rape seed cultivation and the production...which can be used to develop lubricants...of cultivable land in France (1...must now be left fallow. Anxious to placate...solution of using fallow land to produce...biofuel ... |
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Global warming could cost billions
...scientists. Almost half the world's 17...preserves are being used for agriculture...help farmers adopt cultivation methods that provide...of undisturbed land between fields and fallow fields as wildlife habitat. * Use ... |
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The friendly fungus ; Scientists and some farmers are betting on a fungus to...
...of soil to just half a spore per gram...tonnes or more they used to harvest historically...the country. Land productivity in...million ha under cultivation in India, farmers...Mycorrhiza can be used on a variety of...ha of ... |
 "The Independent (Bangladesh)")
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Conserving biodiversity of the Lalmai Hills, THE INDEPENDENT
...adjoining plain-land villages took...ownershipof the hill-lands had been established...last three and a half decades.Prior...The people also used to consume substantial...The hills were used mainlyfor cropping...Terraceor shifting ... |
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JHUM POSING THREAT TO ENVIRONMENT
...shifting (jhum) cultivation widely practised...practices. "Jhum used to be sustainable...reduced the fallow period to three...lakh hectares land area, which...for more than half of the State's total land under ... |
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Roundup: Cuba endeavors to raise farm output amid economic downturn
...lasted nearly half a century, Cuba...redistributing fallow land and raising...production by making land within walking...residents for cultivation. Oxen, rather...000 oxen are used in agricultural...have long been ... |
 "The Daily Mirror (Colombo, Sri Lanka)")
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Towards the further propagation of The Legume 'Gliricidia'
...areas of arable land which are cultivatable...but remain fallow. I would request...form of Paddy lands where effectually only about half of the land is cultivated...water for Paddy Cultivation. The Utilization...utilized to ... |
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