cultivable

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Farming - general words
agricultural extension
agroecology
agroforestry
biodynamic
cultivate
emergence
homestead
hungry gap
hydroponic
hydroponically
inorganically
landrace
reap
the Agrarian Revolution
thrash
tillage
U-pick
unharvested
unsown
untillable

arable | American Dictionary

arable
adjective
us/ˈær·ə·bəl/
(of land) used for or right for growing crops:
The country is rich in arable land.

arable | Business English

arable
adjective
uk /ˈærəbl/us
relating to or used for the growing of crops:
arable land/farm/farmer, etc.

Examples of arable

arable
This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arable equivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
Possibly, this urban market absorbed part of the area's rural workforce, thereby lightening the pressure on those who sought access to arable land.
The implications of restricting use of fertilizer nitrogen for the productivity of arable crops, their profitability and potential pollution by nitrate.
Possibly the area was used as arable land, but we have no evidence for that hypothesis.
That the principal object of a site for arable farming or animal husbandry enjoys much attention is simply stating the obvious.
Both arable farming and animal husbandry were firmly embedded in social values and cosmological ideas.
Virtually all people in the research area are well aware of the general shortage of arable land and the competition over it.
The organic farms cultivated, in 1999, about 270,000 ha farmland, 60,000 ha of which was arable land.
This corresponds to 15 times the arable land used for the production of feedstuffs in the region itself!
The area is dominated by arable land, grazed and abandoned pastures, spruce plantations and deciduous woods.
Although farmers have long attempted to do this for weeds in arable fields, seed bank manipulation, especially for conservation, is in its infancy.
The inhabitants occupied numerous small pieces of arable land rendered fertile by the surrounding wetlands.
Testing a stockless arable organic rotation on a fertile soil.
They were transformed into arable land with plots divided by shallow ditches (figure 6e).
Where the horse played a major transpor t role, one-third of available, arable land was devoted to oat production.
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