Fertile alluvial soils in the valleys support intensive cultivation.
The notion of mono-crop production or intensive cultivation is anathema to them.
Hunger takes second place to working on her one-acre lot, about half of which is under "intensive cultivation".
Intensive cultivation of tobacco, fruits, and vegetables is carried on in the valleys and lowland areas.
However, their intensive cultivation, especially on steep slopes, has led to widespread soil erosion and gullying.
Intensive cultivation creates a large residue of straw, used in local strawboard factories.
The coastal plain area around the Llobregat river delta is under intensive cultivation.
The hill slopes degraded too badly to plant crops on them and the silt damaged the intensive cultivation in the bajos.
But intensive cultivation, which can produce 20 times as many olives as a traditional grove, needs irrigation.
The intensive cultivation practiced in horticulture relies on extensive control of the environment for all phases of plant life.
In natural flora, it is a markedly depleted territory, because of the dense population and intensive cultivation.
