Sentence examples for cultivation increased from inspiring English sources

Local cultivation increased, and Al-Raqqah again became an increasingly important market centre.

Also in the late 1990s, opium poppy cultivation increased in Afghanistan, and that country became a leading producer of heroin.

In Japan the number of arrests for domestic cannabis cultivation increased by 17% in 2009, whereas the number of arrests for importing fell by almost half.

In both places, the surge of American troops helped to beat back Taliban influence, but as those troops returned home last year, cultivation increased sharply.

As the Afghan and Western governments focused on the problem of soaring Afghan opium production, which hit record levels this year and remains a booming industry, cannabis cultivation increased 40percentt around the country, to about 173,000 acres this year — from about 123,500 acres last year, the United Nations said in an August report.

The commercially important sugar beet, however, was developed in Europe in the 18th century; its cultivation increased greatly in the following century, particularly after the British blocked the importation of cane sugar during the Napoleonic Wars.

A majority of the respondents (68%) replied that crop cultivation increases availability of grain and feed sources (straw), thereby improving their food security and minimizing morbidity and mortality loss of animals during the dry season.

As shown in Table 7, 68% of respondents replied that crop cultivation increases their food availability, whereas 32% did not report benefiting from these activities due to failed crop production from lack of rainfall and prolonged droughts.

The end of the Indian Wars further expanded acreage under mechanical cultivation, increasing surpluses for international markets.

The post-war British Colonial Government (1946 1963) took sterner action to restrict shifting cultivation, increasing the area under forest reserves to 24% by 1960 and introducing a total ban on the felling of primary forest for shifting cultivation, effectively from the introduction of the 1958 Land Code (though some local administrative approvals were given to clear primary forest in the 1960s).

Though chlorophyll a concentrations were similar in both cultivations, increased concentrations of chlorophyll b appeared by day 2 in an unsuccessful cultivation (unsuccessful = 1.5 mg/L, successful = 0 mg/L, Fig. 5).