| To make this land cultivable, the productive approach is through watershed development. |
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| Nothing in rural France is more reprehensible than a piece of cultivable ground left unattended. |
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| Roughly half the village land is cultivable but there is less than half a hectare for each of the 3,000 people living there. |
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| The majority of cultivable land in Armenia is owned by smallholders who are farming on plots of less than two ha. |
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| The principal consequence of rapid population growth in coming years will be a reduction in cultivable land per capita. |
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| It has a small cultivable area to be irrigated by these rivers. |
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| Property surveys are conducted wherever land is held by a tribe or clan or where reallocation of cultivable land routinely follows tradition. |
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| This area includes a quarter of the population and one third of cultivable land. Flood threat is the greatest after the Netherlands in Europe. |
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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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| For people living in rural Bangladesh, access to cultivable land is essential for survival. |
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| In Switzerland, every second almost a square metre of cultivable land is developed for residential or industrial purposes. |
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| Of a possible 13,040,000 ha of cultivable land, only 350,000 ha are actually cultivated. |
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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 team has undertaken various activities, including clearing half an acre of scrub to create further cultivable space. |
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| They moved progressively northwards to conquer new cultivable land up until the middle of the 20th century, encroaching areas previously dedicated to animal herding only. |
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| For decades now flagging investment in the agriculture of developing countries has led to a lack of production capacity, energy, infrastructure, technically sound management systems and cultivable land. |
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| This should lead to a progressive improvement in people's diet in a sustainable manner, not least because the country has plentiful land that is cultivable and productive. |
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| Prisoners choosing to carry out community work in order to reduce their sentence build hillside terraces which decrease the loss of soil fertility by leaching and increase the cultivable area. |
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| In my country, which has a great abundance of cultivable land, biofuels represent a new opportunity to expand the agricultural frontier without affecting a single millimetre of forest. |
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| Besides its strategic location, Ayn al-Basha has both abundant water resources and cultivable lands which have ensured the region is densely inhabited in ancient times as much as in the present. |
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| Sometimes the loss of soil productivity can be immediate through loss of cultivable surface area, e.g. if the fields are no longer accessible to machines because of the gaping nature of gullies. |
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| These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown. |
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| This, along with a large percentage of cultivable land within this drainage area, makes Bassenthwaite Lake a fertile habitat. |
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| Besides, the cultivable agricultural land in the country has shrunk for the first time in 15 years, Yechury said. |
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| He said more than 30,000 acres of land in Imam Sahib district had been made cultivable as a result of the project. |
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| Elsewhere, the situation remained tensed after 10 men including three brothers were gunned down in a tribal feud over the cultivable land. |
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| According to CAAS statistics, the amount of cultivable land affected by natural disasters has increased by nearly five million hectares in the past decade. |
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| The study of land use pattern is important because that it reveals the extent of land use under different activities such as cultivable, uncultivable, barren, waste land etc. |
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| According to reports, almost one million hectare of cultivable land has been damaged and approximately 299 livestock have fallen victim across 15 districts of the state. |
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