The phrase "depleted land" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe land that has lost its nutrients or fertility, often due to overuse or poor management practices.
Example: "Farmers are increasingly facing challenges due to depleted land, which affects crop yields and sustainability."
Alternatives: "exhausted soil" or "barren land"
From the beginning, the idea was to create a pilot project that could serve as a model for re-greening deforested and depleted land across Brazil.
While farmers are loath to give up productive farmland, Mr. Rashin and his partner, José Luis Álvarez, have persuaded many to reforest depleted land that would have produced meager corn crops by providing these families with free trees.
A blue-ribbon panel of scientific and technology advisers to President Obama warns that the nation risks losing its longstanding supremacy in food production because research in agriculture has not kept up with new challenges like climate change, depleted land and water resources and emerging pests, pathogens and invasive plants.
Most Americans care about the environment, and yet, as Bittman rightly notes, "of all the changes you can make to your diet, eating fewer animal products has the most dramatic impact on the health of the planet" because eating meat is a top cause of global warming, depletes "land, water, energy, [and] mineral resources," requires 80percentt of all antibiotics produced in the U.S., and more.
But an overloaded agricultural system has depleted the land's carbon content and its replenishment is vital in the face of climate change.
Many years after the oil was depleted, the land near the Dominguez field was re-developed and became the site of the California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Cotton, on the other hand, can deplete the land's nutrients, especially if not rotated with other crops.
Instead of depleting the land's nutrients, like cotton does, hemp actually puts nitrogen back into the soil.
In general, industrial farming (both conventional and organic) is hard on the land, depletes the soil of nutrients, uses industrial chemical fertilizers and/or pesticides, and utilizes environmentally unfriendly practices that are not sustainable over the long-term.
The withering corn has increased feed prices and depleted available feeding land, putting stress on cattle farmers.
Both total and ferrous iron are depleted from the land surface of catena soils relative to the bedrock.
