Since South India is not a suitable climate for wheat cultivation, the old word for "wheat" was no longer even a memory, surviving only as Tamil kūlam, a generic term for "grain", and a few related words in Gondi-Kui (DEDR 1906).
New municipalities either form new enclaves or are contiguous to former municipalities of oil palm cultivation, so enlarging old enclaves.
By Fuchsia Dunlop China's boom has imperilled age-old cultivation and foraging.
For many people here, though, Mondavi's plans seem to threaten a precious tradition: the age-old cultivation of small-scale wines, "one of the crown jewels of France," as Mr. Pearson calls them.
One of the very oldest in cultivation is the horned tulip, Tulipa acuminata with its elongated, wispy petals giving the blooms the weird "spider-like" shape that was so prized by the Ottoman sultans, who introduced the plant to the Dutch.
Most northern archeological sites date from about 1000 CE and are associated with corn cultivation, but in some older cave sites the rice rat is found with the extinct giant armadillo Dasypus bellus, suggesting warm climatic conditions.
Members of the Bacillus genus were often reported in the older cultivation-based studies, but the vast majority of the species of this genus and related genera were reported only recently (Hoyles et al., 2012; Lagier et al., 2012a; Zoetendal et al., 2012).
When farmland is abandoned, it rapidly turns to scrub, and Europe's grassland butterfly species have evolved over millennia to live on grassland, including land under old forms of cultivation that were less intensive.
We're in the Indus valley, the world's oldest centre of cultivation, so we already have a variety of cultivation practices.
Li presented Falun Gong as part of a "centuries-old tradition of cultivation", and in effect sought to revive the religious and spiritual elements of qigong practice that had been discarded in the earlier Communist era.
