ARABLE LAND

  

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ARABLE LAND

Specialty Definition: ARABLE LAND

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Food & Agriculture

A production indicator calculated in hectares per person which refers to land under temporary crops, temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, and land under market and kitchen gardens. Source: European Union. (references)

Weather

Land that can be cultivated to grow crops. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Arable land

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In geography, arable land is a form of land use, meaning land that can be (and is) used for growing crops. David Ricardo incorporated the idea of arable land into economic theory.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Arable land."

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Crosswords: ARABLE LAND

English words defined with "ARABLE LAND": Common appendantDisboscation, Domesday Bookland resources. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ARABLE LAND": agricultural area utilized for farming, arable land area-sq kmfertilizer consumption,100 grams per hectare of arable landHide of Landirrigated land in % of arable land. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ARABLE LAND

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Books

  • Arthropod Natural Enemies in Arable Land 2: Survival, Reproduction and Enhancement (Natural Science Series, 10) (reference)

  • Degradation of arable land resources : policy options and considerations within the context of rural restucturing in South Africa (reference)

  • Pellonvaraustoiminta ja sopimuksista vapautuneen peltoalan jèalkikèayttèo Kainuussa = Field reservation operations and the use of the arable land area in Kainuu after the expiration of contracts (reference)

  • Simulation of the water balance of arable land and pastures (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Non-Fiction Usage: ARABLE LAND

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Business

China has 7% of the world's arable land and 22% of the world population, of which 71% are engaged in agriculture. (references)

Maize is cultivated over nearly half of the arable land surface, and forms the backbone of the country's agricultural industry. (references)

Due to the large population and relatively small arable land for agriculture, China does not have the space to leave land in fallow and still feed its people. (references)

Civil Liberties

Croatia

The Orthodox Church has filed several requests for the return of seized properties, and some cases have been resolved successfully, but several buildings in Zagreb have not been returned, nor have properties that belonged to monasteries, such as arable land and forests. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Arable land - 30%. (references)

Eritrea

Cultivated land--10% of arable land. (references)

Political Economy

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Most commercial enterprises are privately owned, but a state corporation owns the sugar industry and 85 percent of arable land. (references)

Kiribati

The islands' isolation and meager resources, including poor soil and limited arable land, severely limit prospects for economic development. (references)

Maldives

The population is approximately 270,000. Agriculture and manufacturing continue to play a minor role in the economy, which is constrained by a severe shortage of labor and lack of arable land. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: ARABLE LAND

Expressions using "ARABLE LAND": arable land area fertilizer consumption,100 grams per hectare of arable land irrigated land in % of arable land plot of arable land. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ARABLE LAND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

arable land

7

arable land peru

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ARABLE LAND

Language Translations for "ARABLE LAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tokë i lërueshëm. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

耕地 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

ploejejord (arable area, tilled area), dyrkede arealer (arable land area). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

akkerland (arable area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled area, tilled lands), oppervlakte bouwland (arable area, tilled area), bouwland (farmland). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viljelysmaa (arable area, tilled area), viljelymaa (arable area, tilled area), viljelty maa (arable area, tilled area), peltoala (arable area, arable land area, tilled area), pelto (cultivated ground, field). (various references)

   

French

  

terres arables (arable area, arable land area, arable lands, tilled area). (various references)

   

German

  

ackerland (arable farm Land, farmland, infield, plowland). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αροτραίες εκτάσεις (arable land area). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mûvelhetõ földparcellák (plot of arable land). (various references)

   

Italian

  

seminativi (arable land area). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

耕地 , 耕し得る土地 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たがやしうるとち, "うち (arrest, back-end, cleverness, confinement, craft, cunning, detailed, detention, elaborate, exquisite, heights, high ground, plateau, skill, slow and elaborate, well-known). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thalloo banejagh (fallow). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arableay andlay

   

Portuguese

  

terras aráveis (arable land area, arable lands, plough lands, tilled lands), superfície cultivada (arable area, area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated area, land under crop, tilled area), superfície arável (arable area, tilled area). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пахота (ploughed land). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

earghalt. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plodna zemlja, oranica (garden tillage, infield, plough, plough land, ploughed land, ploughland). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tierras arables (arable land area), superficies cultivadas (arable area, tilled area). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

åkermark (arable area, tilled area), åkerjord (plough land, ploughland). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sürülebilir arazi, işlenebilir toprak (arable, plough land, ploughland, plowland, plow-land). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tir a+r. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ARABLE LAND

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

arva. (various references)

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Anagrams: ARABLE LAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-d-e-l-l-n-r"

-3 letters: adrenal, ballade, balneal, blander, landler.

-4 letters: abrade, arable, balder, ballad, balled, baller, bander, blared, darnel, labara, ladler, lander.

-5 letters: abler, aland, alane, alder, anear, ardeb, areal, arena, baaed, baled, baler, banal, baned, barde, bared, beard, blade, bland, blare, blear, blend, brand, bread, debar, denar, eland, label, labra, laden, lader, ladle, learn, naled, redan.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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