Only about 7 per cent of the territory is arable.

For instance, where is the arable land to grow crops?

The arable land in the village comprised gardens and olive trees.

Close to 80 per cent depend on both pastoral and arable farming.

We'd go from three percent of the arable land, to four percent.

Israeli forces had destroyed 10 per cent of the arable land in Gaza.

This explains, in part, why farmers in developing countries seem to overexploit arable land.

When arable land goes elsewhere, it is only natural that men should also leave.

Turn it into a square that stands for all the arable land on Earth.

Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.

Apart from the Adamstown settlement, which occupies approximately 24 hectares, land is classified as suitable for gardens or arable farming (117 hectares), forest (77 hectares) and non arable cliffs and rock ledges (121 hectares).

Apart from the Adamstown settlement, which occupies approximately 24 hectares, land is classified as suitable for gardens or arable farming (117 hectares), forest (77 hectares) and non arable cliffs and rock ledges (121 hectares).

369. Lack of arable land in rural areas is a third cause of internal migration.

With each torrential rain or tropical hurricane, more arable land is washed into the sea.

little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.

75 OF FlSHlNG GROUNDS ALMOST DEPLETED 40 OF ARABLE LAND DAMAGED The World Has Changed

Since only 2.9 of the country's land is arable, agriculture contributes to 0.5 of Bahrain's GDP.

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

14. In countries where mines have been laid in farmers apos fields, arable land becomes unusable.

Environmental degradation further aggravates the shortage of arable land in many parts of the developing world.

Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Owing to these factors the desert has eaten up more than 2 million hectares of arable land.

Although arable land accounts for only 1 of Namibia, nearly half of the population is employed in agriculture.

They particularly referred to the lack of arable land and water needed for agriculture. 8 D. Industrial development

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

Although the total area of land devoted to growing tobacco represents only 0.3 per cent of the world apos s arable and permanent crop area, in a number of countries a more significant proportion of arable land is used for tobacco production.

The Israeli forces had also destroyed thousands of hectares of arable land and hundreds of wells and agricultural warehouses.

Only 4 of arable and permanent cropland is irrigated, compared to 39 in South Asia and 29 in East Asia.

Significant natural resources are iron ore, coal, potash, timber, lignite, uranium, copper, natural gas, salt, nickel, arable land and water.

The widespread crop failure has significantly eroded incomes based on arable agriculture, on which the majority of our people depend.

Of the total land area of 2,934 km² (725,000 acres), about 24.4 is in permanent crops and another 21.2 is arable.

That's the Sahara eating up almost two meters a day of the arable land, physically pushing people away from their homes.

Food supply has not collapsed (1.5 billion hectares of arable land are being used, but another 2.7 billion hectares are in reserve).

Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

(b) Light to moderate degradation over extensive areas (for example, soil fertility decline on arable land and degradation of vegetation on rangelands).

All these phenomena are rendered more acute because of the scarcity of underground water which is not sufficient for irrigating arable land.

Same idea series of semi independent city states, little blobs of metropolitan stuff with arable land around, joined to one another by railway.

This is not primarily a result of global warming, but a consequence of more people and less arable land in the developing world.

7. Tajikistan, the smallest of the republics, is largely mountainous and, as in Kyrgyzstan, only 7 per cent of the land is arable.

27 per cent of Libya apos s arable land is unusable because of the mines planted in it during the Second World War.

Agricultural activity in Anguilla is limited due to a combination of factors, including poor soil, the small amount of arable land and irregular rainfall.

Cotton is the dominant crop, accounting for more than 50 per cent of the arable land and 60 per cent of total agricultural production.

Annually, we lose a large number of livestock, and the migration of people in search of arable land and water is becoming more frequent.

It had taken measures to control industrial pollution, and had inaugurated the Productive Ecology Programme, which would help prevent the erosion of arable land.

Moreover, producers of foodstuffs (such as Argentina and Uruguay), which suffered for decades, are now gaining from notable biogenetic innovations that increased arable land area.