He observed that cooling often coincided with dynastic crises in China, when the Mongolian nomads of the northern steppe tended to intrude southward.28 By contrast, Han society, which was based on the irrigation of low-lying plains, had historically thrived during warmer eras when the area of cultivatable land pushed north. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)
In order to adapt, we will have to work together to create community-based collectives, which will prove increasingly easy to do since, owing to the lack of multinationals, global expansion has decreased to the point of not only preserving the last of the cultivatable land but creating more of it -- after all, global warming is no longer an issue and the environment is thriving. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Egypt's cultivatable and inhabitable land makes up a tiny percentage of its total land surface. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cultivatable area grew from 4.8 million to 5.7 million feddans (1 feddan is equal to 1.038 acres). ❋ Unknown (2001)
Eventually, farms spread across all the islands, of which there were six that boasted cultivatable land. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)
Tanzania had 40 million hectares of cultivatable land, but was able to plough only six million. ❋ Unknown (1996)
The observations suggest that a similar integration of control measures is needed during this transitional period that bridges the time-span between forested land and the cultivatable fields of a permanent agriculture. ❋ Unknown (1992)
Her 6,000,000 peasant proprietors are the owners of nearly all her cultivatable soil, which is worth, on an average, $160 per acre. ❋ John W. Bookwalter (N/A)
Agriculture and manufacturing continue to play a minor role in the economy, constrained by the limited availability of cultivatable land and the shortage of domestic labor. ❋ United States. Central Intelligence Agency (N/A)
There has recently been much done near Burlington in reclaiming valuable, cultivatable lands from the river which formerly overflowed them each year so that people were afraid to plant crops and they were therefore abandoned to the forests. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The mountainous part varies as to its formation, but there is no variety in the declivities and acclivities forming the lower elevations, which are composed of conglomerate; nor is there much in the usually narrow strip at the lowest portion of each steppe or valley, which is very generally the only cultivatable portion. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Nût begat Osiris, the cultivatable land and the Nile united in one concept, Set the desert, and the two sisters Isis and Nephthys. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Finally the dam of Assuân, also completed in 1902, below the island of Philæ, maintains such a supply of water in the canals of Lower and Middle Egypt that upwards of 500,000 acres have been added to the area of cultivatable land in the summer. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
So far as we can judge from the paintings of the early tombs, the whole cultivatable land was laid out in fields, orchards, or gardens. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
They also promoted the interests of agriculture and commerce, and incidentally increased the revenue from taxation by paying much attention to the canals and extending the cultivatable areas. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)
The distinctive feature of their agricultural methods was the engineering skill which was displayed in extending the cultivatable area by the construction of irrigating canals and ditches. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)
The cultivatable portion consists mainly of oak flats, having a close gray loam soil and a growth of oak, hickory, beech, maple, and short-leaf pine, with flattish ridges here and there which have an intermixture of long and short-leaf pine and sandy loam soils. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
A considerable percentage of the surface of Perquimans is occupied by what is commonly called swamp land, though for the most part it is drainable and cultivatable. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
