Sentence examples for farmland fallow from inspiring English sources

Hengdian keeps large expanses of farmland fallow, ready to host any army.

As a result, at least half a million acres of farmland lay fallow in 2014.

"There is much misery and disease, farmland lies fallow, and war may be imminent.

They also have farmland gone fallow, and practically everyone has been to work in the United States or has family there.

There are few swathes of farmland lying fallow and much of the world's available fresh water is already being used.

One of the most visible signs of the prolonged drought in California are the thousands of acres of farmland left fallow.

Among other things, it requires the Imperial Irrigation District to "transfer" part of its current water consumption to San Diego, Los Angeles, and other users in the state, mainly by letting some farmland lie fallow and by modernizing irrigation techniques.

At year-end, officials at Imperial could not agree to the transfer because it would have meant choosing one of two equally unacceptable alternatives: letting productive farmland lie fallow to sustain the sea or destroying one of the nation's largest avian habitats and creating a regional air-quality hazard from the particles that would be emitted if the shoreline of the Salton Sea receded.

Other emergency plans call for letting huge tracts of farmland lie fallow to ensure a 50-day supply, in hopes that the drought will break.

Severe drought grips the state, big reservoirs across the West sport high-and-dry bathtub rings, some San Joaquin Valley farmland lies fallow and a few cities face steep water cuts or rationing.

More than 400,000 acres of farmland were fallowed in response to the drought and other factors.