Sentence examples for Infertile land from inspiring English sources

Farming is sustained on infertile land (by and large, the uplands) through taxpayers' munificence.

Most of its inhabitants eke out a living growing subsistence crops on small plots of dusty, infertile land.

"Long back, the land of our grandfather's was just taken," said Japfumaneyi Masuko, a farm laborer who said his family was crowded onto rocky, infertile land.

"However, once they moved to the new sites, they found not only infertile land, but also no schools, clinics, wells or other basic services".

Many of the places in which habitats might otherwise be allowed to recover – principally the highly infertile land in the uplands – are kept bare by this rule.

Residents are extremely poor, living on infertile land, and the recent glut of coffee in world markets has removed a steady source of additional household income.

Although it was not an exercise of that power in its ordinarily accepted sense of protecting the health, lives, and morals of the community, it is defensible in its broader meaning of providing for the general welfare of the people by the reclamation of swampy, overflowed, and infertile lands, and the erection of dams, levees, and dikes for that purpose.

In Ghana, bush fires, infertile lands, snake bites and poor sanitary conditions have been identified as major risks faced by rural communities [22].

The special importance of sorghum for subsistence farmers in arid and infertile lands is due to its higher level of tolerance to drought and to waterlogging and its more frugal use of soil nitrogen fertilizer than other cereal crops [ 2].

These scraps of often-infertile land became de facto reservations for blacks, who had few rights outside them and were not permitted to live elsewhere without permission.

They are still isolated, the ground is infertile, and land is rarely owned by those who work it.