Sentence examples for fell plantations from inspiring English sources

Then agricultural commodity prices fell, plantations closed, and industrial development encouraged poor farmers to move to the towns.

The result was that the countryside became impoverished and in many places farms and plantations fell into disuse.

Finally we emerged, and as we crested a hill, the plantations fell into an endless repetition of tidy bunches stretching for miles, looking almost like the rag of a Berber carpet.

The study found an increase in the number of fires in peatland and in timber concessions in 2015, compared to the last haze outbreak considered major, in 2006, and that the number of fires in palm oil plantations fell.

We laughed when I said plantation, fell into our chairs when I said cane.

A key trend is the sharp decline in hardwood (i.e. eucalypt) planting rates since 2007 in Australia and plateauing or fall in softwood plantations in both Australia and New Zealand since the 1990s.

After wholesale destruction of their nesting habitat (scrub forest) for conversion to citrus plantations, the populations fell to several hundred thousand.

"The joke is that he fell in love with the plantation and I went along with it," Ms. Donnelley said.

But its plantation level sourcing actually fell in 2016 from 27%to14%4%, and the commitment has been deferred until 2020.

After an unsuccessful revolt and the ruin of the Fitzgeralds of Desmond, Kerry fell within the scope of the plantation of Munster, begun in 1586.

Reeling under the relentless encroachment of palm oil plantations are falling rainforests, the people whose livelihoods depend on them and the climate we all depend on.