"indigenous cultivation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, often used to refer to forms of agriculture and traditional farming practices.
For example, "The indigenous cultivation of crops in the region has helped the local community increase their access to food for generations."
The Matengo people, in SW Tanzania, developed the ngoro conservation system several hundred years ago and it is a very effective indigenous manual cultivation practice for steep slopes.
In some parts of the Malawi region, shifting cultivation of indigenous varieties of millet and sorghum began to give way to more intensive cultivation of crops with a higher carbohydrate content, such as corn (maize), cassava (manioc), and rice.
James Ligare, Commercial Cultivation of Indigenous Medicinal Plants, Kenya.
For Leakey, scaling up cultivation of indigenous fruit trees to truly reverse their decline will depend on decision makers in agricultural development.
The practice of shifting cultivation is an indigenous heritage representing adaptations to household mobility and subsistence economy (Candido 1964).
It is indigenous to China and the ornamental cultivation has a history of more than 2000 years [ 4].
The Indonesian government has been handing over swathes of indigenous lands to private companies for palm oil cultivation since the 1960s, according to Tomasz Johnson, forest campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency.
"This is extremely worrying," said Watson, who added that her group had found evidence of logging, coca cultivation and drug trafficking near the indigenous-occupied region on the Peruvian side of the border.
The indigenous Hmar and Zelinangrong Naga people's jhum (shifting cultivation) lands, wet rice fields, and forest and riverine habitat will be submerged and destroy their way of life.
When formulating development projects, the government always nullifies the role of the livestock keepers and back short cut methods, such as cereal cultivation, land allocation and crossbreeding the valuable indigenous animal genetic resources with exotic breeds.
