noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
intensive
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The brightest areas are those of intensive cultivation , and intermediate shades represent grassland and sugar beet.
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Regularly, where intensive cultivation succeeds, civilized people in the Far East occupy only small areas.
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This could be achieved in three years, using intensive cultivation .
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But back on the marshes and fens, who was really to profit from this continual process of ever more intensive cultivation ?
shifting
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Nevertheless, they modified the forest by nomadic behaviour and shifting cultivation , if they became truly independent.
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Smallholder agriculture has led to the concentration of people being three times that that would support shifting cultivation in some areas.
■ NOUN
rice
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In many districts cattle were thought essential for rice cultivation , and when there was a shortage fields lay fallow.
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Water is in short supply, dimming the promise of rice cultivation , which is highly water-intensive.
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The concentration on intensive cotton and rice cultivation has led to a build-up of pollution from fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.
■ VERB
bring
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Predicting how much more land can be brought under cultivation is complicated by two other factors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Moreover, shifting cultivation was still being practised in Czechoslovakia, for example, until the late 1970s at least.
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Not all of the losses of moorland and rough grassland to agricultural development are the result of surface cultivation and grass seeding.
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Some varieties of waterlilies are fairly new to cultivation whereas the majority of well known cultivars date back years.
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The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation.
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Through his cultivation of Boris Yeltsin and United States aid, he kept relations positive.
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What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation .