unsowed

But then their provisions failed them; what fruits of the ground they had laid up were spent and the land being not ploughed that year, continued unsowed, because it was the seventh year, on which, by our laws, we are obliged to let it lay uncultivated.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

Thousands of acres of paddy fields here were forced to remain unsowed due to the shortage of water across the country and despite the government's efforts farmers were unable to return to their fields.

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The King was advised and of himselfe disposed, as a ready meane to have assuredly brought us to ruine in the moneth of March 1586. himselfe also with all his Savages to have runne away from us, and to have left his ground in the Iland unsowed: which if hee had done, there had bene no possibilitie in common reason, (but by the immediate hande of God) that wee could have bene preserved from starving out of hande.

Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902