Sentence examples for cleared for cultivation from inspiring English sources

The original, or natural, vegetation disappeared centuries ago when the land was cleared for cultivation.

Thus, palms are often left in place when forests are cleared for cultivation.

As the whole of the province has been cleared for cultivation since ancient times, no primary forest remains.

Some of the land has been cleared for cultivation, but other areas remain covered with evergreen rainforest.

Economically valuable, the oil palm grows wild and is usually preserved when forest is cleared for cultivation.

Though much of Ukraine's original plant cover has been cleared for cultivation, three main zones of natural vegetation are still distinguishable.

In many areas the savannas have been cleared for rice cultivation.

Its lower reach (in Sierra Leone) flows through a densely populated mangrove swamp area that has been extensively cleared for rice cultivation by the Temne people.

The frequently disturbed forest had been cleared for shifting cultivation 3 5 times in the past 30 years while the infrequently disturbed sites had been cleared only once.

The animal was found in an isolated fragment of dry deciduous forest amid land cleared for maize cultivation.

More Chinese settlers came to Johor from the 1850s onwards, and forested areas in Southern Johor such as Tebrau, Plentong and Stulang were cleared for the cultivation of gambier and pepper.