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This could all be done on unarable land so no food crop land need be used.
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They see a country with half its population living on the size of the state of Texas, surrounded by mostly unarable land and a sinking water table.
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The Chief Minister offered the Tatas unarable land in West Medinipur for setting up the manufacturing unit, but the latter preferred this agricultural land and the supposedly pro-people Left Front government in order to oblige the influential multinational company surrendered meekly to this compulsion.
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Climate change, if we don't do something about it, will become a national security concern because more and more land will become unarable, and people will fight more and more over that which is.
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I have paid my respects above to the tilled crops and the pastured pig for the arable land, and for the unarable land I would still emphasize the pig and give him other sources of food to supplement pasture.
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Did "forest" mean also moorland, wild and unarable land?
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
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They are a primarily tribal people, who farm in a particularly unarable ground.
yarb commented on the word unarable
A small smeary mustache, which he's cut from photographs of his heroic masterposeur, struggles to survive on a pitted unarable lip. He frigs its greasy ends, but to no avail: they will not even form points, let alone stand stiff.
- William Gass, The Tunnel
May 11, 2009