Sentence examples for cultivation increasing from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

Last year, as the reforms of Mr. Thein Sein were taking hold, opium poppy cultivation increased 14 percent in Myanmar, the fifth consecutive annual increase, according to the survey, which is conducted using satellite imagery and helicopter surveillance.

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.

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.

Areas under cultivation increased by 26%% over the study period.

Respiration rate of fresh-cut iceberg lettuce increased when medium temperature during cultivation increased.