Sentence examples for Infertile soil from inspiring English sources

Dry, infertile soil limited agriculture, and timber was rare.

Because they grew in marshy, infertile soil, they had to devise other ways to find nutrients.

The sands and gravels that underlie the area yield an acidic infertile soil supporting rough heathland, scrub, and pine forest.

After the Paris peace agreements of 1991, the United Nations tried to plant a multiparty democracy in this infertile soil.

The peninsula sits at a low elevation and has infertile soil and insufficient fresh water; it is sparsely populated.

These — and lesser eruptions — formed the island, which, except for a minor area fit for farming and living, is lava with a thin layer of infertile soil.

It can also grow in infertile soils, limestone soils or loam.

The Pacific coast, including the department of Chocó, with its lush rainforest and infertile soils, is sparsely inhabited.

They couldn't handle the compacted, eroded, sunbaked and infertile soils that the farmers had left behind.

Subarctic species were dominant and local successions were probably delayed by relatively unstable and infertile soils.

In many other areas where climate is suitable for forest growth, very shallow or infertile soils may prevent tree growth and result in development of grassland.