arable

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fertile or infertile land
barrenly
barrenness
bottomland
bread basket
denude
fertile
fertility
hardscrabble
hospitable
hostile
luscious
lush
lushly
lushness
sterile
uncultivable
uncultivated
unfertile
unfertilized
unfruitful

Examples of cultivable

cultivable
However, these findings are restricted to a fraction of (known) cultivable and viable bacteria only.
Conversely, more cultivable land might have been available during periods of low sea stands as these wetlands retreated.
About 42% of households had no cultivable land and the mean amount of land was 1061 decimals per household.
Large canal irrigation systems crisscrossed and broke up grazing grounds and converted some of them into cultivable land.
More recently, however, renting has become a more common mode for migrants to obtain access to cultivable land.
Both land holdings and cultivable plots are mainly in the small and medium categories (2-5 and 5.1-20 bighas,6 respectively).
The lack of cultivable land restricts agricultural activities to just the few dry months of winter.
Cultivable wastelands were allocated in the 1950s to villages in proportion to their livestock population at that time.
In some cases a household would have relocated to a newly built house because the old one had become dilapidated beyond repair or the surrounding fields were no longer cultivable.
This law applied to communities that possessed cultivable land in common and performed regular adjustments in the amounts of land assigned to households in accordance with their relative size.
However, population growth and socio-economic changes in recent times have led to a relative shortage of cultivable land, imposing excessive demand on the natural resource base.
Cultivable community analysis was carried out by molecular analysis of colonies grown on the agar plates described above.
Nevertheless, for most contributors to the literature, the access of rural households to cultivable land is considered the critical factor in the survival of the rural poor.
At the same time, there was a quantum leap in turning cultivable land for the non-agricultural purposes over the period due to the ever-expanding process of urbanisation.
Barren and uncultivable land, cultivable waste and permanent pastures have constantly witnessed a sharp decline during the last five decades.
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