Sentences with phrase «fertile farm land»

These are the famous «black dirt» onion fields, some of the most fertile farm land in New York State.

I have watched rich, fertile farm land, Mississippi River bottom mostly, paved for chemical factories and cheap apartment buildings and always wondering when we come to regret wasting this resource.

The landscape varies from lunar landscape through peat lands and fertile farm lands to stunning coastline and gorgeous hills.

With panoramic views of the richly fertile farm lands, the farm offers tranquil cou...

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These concerns stem in part from the «farm rush» of the 1990s and early 2000s, when agricultural workers from China moved to the fertile land in the Far East along the border.

Things of this kind are from God: the fertile land, moderate winds, abundance of seeds, the work of the oxen, and other things by which a farm is brought to productivity and abundance... But the avaricious one has not remembered our common nature, and has not thought of distribution...»

The farm is positioned in the heart of the Mississippi River Valley, spanning 327 of the greenest, most fertile land I've ever seen.

Acadian territory takes in the entire coast of Louisiana as well as lands that range from fertile farms to mysterious bayous laden with wild game, unexpected beauty, and genuine danger.

«Our state is blessed with fertile hectares of land good for farming, hence, triggers our ambition to tap the numerous potentials in agriculture to enhance the general well being of the citizens», Aregbesola stated.

Clusters of hunter - gatherers spent much of the late Stone Age working out the basics of farming on the fertile lands of what is now Turkey before taking this knowledge to Europe.

Equally, instead of encouraging low - tech traditional farming methods it may be preferable to focus on improving high - yield mechanised agriculture on the most fertile farmland to feed the new urban residents, whilst allowing mountainsides and other marginal lands to revert to forest.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

The Chitwan Valley is inhabited by numerous rural farming communities as the fertile land is ideal for grain and food crops, but it is the region's non-human inhabitants that provide a compelling reason to visit the area.

Mymering Guest House is situated on a working farm, nestled in the fertile Dwarsrivier valley amongst picturesque wine lands with its abundant fruit farms and the magnificent Towerkop Mountain.

Unlike much of the rest of the island, the higher northern interior has reasonably fertile land which could have been used for farming.

«Now, usually on farm websites we're meant to tell you how wonderful the land is and how fertile and special it is.

Since 2000, an area of fertile ground roughly twice the size of the UK has been seized by land grabbers and consolidated into large farms, generally growing crops for export rather than the food needed by the poor.»

Why did food production develop first in these seemingly rather marginal lands, and only later in today's most fertile farm - lands and pastures?

«There's no magic wand in any capital in the world that you can wave to refill all of the lakes and rivers that will dry up, or make farm — arid farm land fertile again.

Article IV: The Seeds The White House organic farmers will plant a diverse mix of heirloom seeds passed down from Thomas Jefferson's farm at Monticello and seeds donated by American farmers and gardeners, to celebrate both the rich agricultural traditions of the Office of the President and the passions of everyday Americans for working her fertile and bountiful land.