Sentence examples for more cropland from inspiring English sources

After all, we cannot clear much more cropland at the expense of forests and wetlands.

Rising prices mean even more cropland is likely to be turned over to corn.

In contrast, extensification occurs when more cropland or pastures are needed so that additional natural lands are converted to agriculture.

When moving across the gradient of grassland to cropland, abundance initially increased in response to more cropland on the landscape, but declined in response to more cropland after the threshold (δ= 0.096, or 9.6% cropland).

However, if expansion of irrigated area is constrained, either due to insufficient water or due to insufficient pumping capacity, then it is likely that more cropland area will be required to meet the additional global demand induced by ethanol production.

This means that if more cropland is needed, it will be taken from the most productive AEZ where land is available and profitable to be converted to crop production.

This may be accompanied by abandonment of other, more marginal cropland, pastures, or rangeland.

And with California farmers expected to lose about 33percentt of their surface water supply this year, not to mention fallowing 6-76-7percentf the state's annual irrigated cropland, more and more growers are having to adopt precision irrigation practices to grow more crop per drop.

About 172 million people living in some of the world's largest cities drink water that has traveled through land that is more than 50% cropland.

His initial conclusion was that while jatropha could be grown on marginal land, it produces a lot more oil on cropland.

And a rat species that carries the disease was 20 times more common in cropland than in the nearby protected forest the researchers sampled.