Sentence examples for no longer arable from inspiring English sources
Two hundred and fifty wells were destroyed, three hundred thousand trees were uprooted, and large swaths of agricultural land were made no longer arable, in part because of contamination and unexploded ordnance.
That option no longer exists; nearly every arable patch of ground has been cultivated, and irrigation for agriculture already consumes seventy per cent of the Earth's freshwater.
The chemicals left in the soil by industrialism make once arable land no longer usable.
Many Plinthosols outside the wet tropics have shallow, continuous petroplinthite, which limits their rootable soil volume to the extent that arable farming is no longer possible; such land can at best be used for low volume grazing.
Furthermore, arable land and grassland no longer needed for animal feed production becomes redundant and can possibly be used for the production of raw materials for renewable energy.
The arable land has been put down to grass as it no longer pays.
To take just one (very significant) example: What happens when, because of the lack of water and arable land, we see massive migration away from areas that are no longer habitable to more temperate regions?
"If you did a lot of biofuels on [arable] land it is very easy to envision a billion hectares for biofuels you will have no nature left and no reserve of land after 50 years". Instead, Tilman argues, it makes sense to grow biomass for fuels on relatively infertile land no longer used for agriculture.
Wolf said longer-term, the Arable could be utilized beyond agriculture, for example, to help cities manage urban flooding, water quality or fires.
