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 arable ['ærәbl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 适于耕种的, 可耕的

  1. In Holland thousands of hectares have been reclaimed from the sea and turned over to arable land and pasture.
    在荷兰,人们拦海造田已开垦了成千上万公顷的土地并将它们变成可耕地和牧场。
  2. He farms300 acres of arable land.
    他耕作三百英亩的可耕地。
  3. Arable farmers are struggling, too.
    种地农民也是苦不堪言。


arable
[ adj ]
(of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
<adj.all>


Arable \Ar"a*ble\, a. [F. arable, L. arabilis, fr. arare to
plow, akin to Gr. ?, E. ear, to plow. See {Earable}.]
Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land
which has been plowed or tilled.


Arable \Ar"a*ble\, n.
Arable land; plow land.

  1. In 1985, those accounted for 77 percent of the arable land in Poland and 80 percent in Yugoslavia, and their shares of gross farm output were 78 percent and 69 percent, respectively.
  2. Its 1986 special report concentrated on the southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where arable land is scarce, subsistence farming is a way of life and some of Mexico's most violent land disputes occur.
  3. The private plots make up 2.7 percent of the arable land in the Soviet Union, as much as 13 percent in Bulgaria and Hungary, and 14 percent in Romania.
  4. The forested area has decreased by 30 percent over the last 20 years due to pressure from farmers, herders, firewood cutters and drought." Only 12 percent of the country is arable, and only 3 percent can be used for growing crops.
  5. John Fenton, an arable farmer in north Humberside, can pinpoint which parts of his 400-hectare holding make him the most money.
  6. Poland's 2.7 million small private farms cover 76% of its arable land.
  7. The sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, cited Iraq's sparse rainfall, limited arable land and poor prospects for irrigation development as limiting factors.
  8. With only 4 per cent of its territory arable, and the national population growing by 1m every eight months, the capital is a target for large-scale rural migration.
  9. So the foreign exchange bonus enjoyed by arable farmers has proved to be very limited. Levels of compensation for not producing - for setting aside land - are another issue.
  10. The law further stalls Sarney's program to distribute land to 1.4 million peasant families, in a country where 2 percent of landowners hold 60 pecent of arable land.
  11. Because they believe that the exodus to the cities is the result of small farmers being forced from the land by large landholders, the emphasis in the countryside is on redistribution of arable land.
  12. The Soviet Agricultural Ministry estimates there are 60,000 private farms occupying 3.7 million acres, still a fraction of all arable land.
  13. Irrigation is possible farther back from the river, making more land arable and enticing investors.
  14. The government's intend is to preserve Egypt's arable land to help feed an exploding population _ now 53 million and growing at a rate of 1.2 million a year.
  15. In Brazil, about 4 percent of the population owns half of the arable land.
  16. By mid-April only 13.3 per cent of arable land had been returned to owners within its final borders, admits the Ministry of Agriculture. 'Part of the problem is that we don't have good records.
  17. Poor management, low investment, poor irrigation, a lack of arable land and the lack of mechanization make farming increasingly uneconomical, Huh said.
  18. Nearly 70% of the country's arable land is in the form ejidos: plots owned by the government and leased to peasants.
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