Sentence examples for olive cultivation from inspiring English sources

Historically, Deir Ghassaneh depended primarily on olive cultivation, and until the present day most of Bani Zeid's cultivable land is covered by olive orchards.

The economic basis for this significant social change has long been debated, particularly concerning the role of olive cultivation in the island's agricultural system.

"I've always thought of him as somewhat parallel to an oil sheikh," David Mattingly, a professor of Roman archeology at the University of Leicester who studies Roman olive cultivation, told me.

At Sufetula, as elsewhere in the interior of Tunisia, Roman skill in the conservation and use of limited water supplies produced an agricultural prosperity, based primarily on olive cultivation, that was not achieved again until modern times.

This study was aimed at enhancing the natural landscape of a small urban area, principally dedicated to tourism, through the recovery of the traditional manner of olive cultivation which is at risk of extinction.

The Integrated Production for olive crop defines a set of rules that has to be followed in order to ensure a production of higher quality, and promotes an environmentally respectful model of Olive cultivation.

A PF task with the aforementioned characteristics is the insecticide-bait ground spraying against olive fruit fly, the most serious pest on olive cultivations.

This study aimed at setting up a comprehensive approach on viticultural and olive tree cultivation environmental impact, through soil and landscape change analysis at the years 1965, 1990 , 1994and 2000, both at the catchment and province scales.

The pollen record shows distinct landscape changes in which an impressive dominance of Erica heaths is succeeded by the expansion of Mediterranean pine woodlands and other maquis vegetation and different land uses (olive, cereal cultivation) show alternating phases of expansion and contraction.

In the olive tree cultivation, the harvesting of olive fruit and the pruning of olive trees generate an important number and large amounts of by-products such as leaves, twigs, and stems in farms.

However, as 22.6% of rootstocks belonged to a single MLL, our results provide first evidence on selection of rootstocks in past olive tree cultivation.