Sentence examples for exhausted soil from inspiring English sources

Why do we turn over the same exhausted soil again and again?

Possibilities include drier air than the fern is used to, crowding that can lead to fungus infection, and exhausted soil that can no longer hold enough oxygen.

In developing countries subjected to the global land rush, one factor behind exhausted soil and depleted water tables is insecure farmers' land rights.

The land was a dumping ground in 1977, little more than a rash of grassy boils festering in the exhausted soil.

Smith lived in the village on and off for many months, and the understanding and empathy he gained is apparent in his photographs of the villagers' daily struggle to draw life from exhausted soil.

I wonder whether people listening on earphones to Richard Chartier's "microsounds" while looking at a brushy white monochrome painting by John Zurier realize that these artists are tilling exhausted soil first broken by the composer John Cage and the painter Robert Ryman in the 1950's.

More humans equals exhausted soils, climate-changing resource consumption, and war.

Africa has some of the most exhausted soils in the world, with less than 1% of organic matter in them, half the level required for good fertility.

Double cropping of wheat and barley after rice and maize (cereal after cereal) on already exhausted soils is unsustainable and with the existing level of mechanization seems to have reached its limits.

Species with a relatively high ECA (notably Tilia) may exhaust soil water reserves early in summer, thereby increasing drought stress in dry years and possibly reducing ecosystem stability in mixed forests.

The Fijians consider that these control practices should not be taken into consideration because the Chinese farmers exhaust soil fertility in the period of leasing.