Sentence examples for arable surface from inspiring English sources
Environmental concerns dictate using power from below the surface of the earth (uranium and fossil fuels) rather than wasting the scarce resource of the earths arable surface with dilute sources of solar power.
Legumes (Fabaceae/Leguminosae) are grown on 12-15% of the world's arable surface and account for c. 27% of the world's primary crop production [ 1].
Agricultural land represents 11% of the total surface and 36% of the arable surface of the Earth [ 1] and continues to increase in an effort to feed a growing human population.
It is estimated that over 50% of the world's potential arable land surface is composed of acid soils mostly distributed in developing countries [ 1, 2].
The coastline in this area is so steep that dry stone walls were built to create arable land surfaces, irrigated by water stored in small open tanks.
Nearly three-fifths of the land surface is arable, and about one-third is forested.
Because of the province's hilly topography, only about one-fifth of its land surface is arable.
On the opposite, medium arable land and grassland surface areas proved to be favourable for them as a whole in the immediat landscape, while in the mid-distant landscape, fallows favoured aphidophagous hoverflies and arable lands did so for spiders.
Indeed, the economic potential of agriculture remains limited given that less than 1.5% of the island's total surface is arable land, which is equivalent to only 380 km2.
Both return flows of irrigation water and precipitation runoff from arable land can pollute surface water with nutrients, herbicides, pesticides, salts leached from the soil, and sediment.
"There are 17 million farmers, farming 170 million hectares which is 12 per cent of the world's arable area, seven times the surface area of the UK [with GM] and no one has ever brought me a single case of a health problem," he said.
