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They are also so stony as to be non-arable.

Such measures largely confine future development to non-arable land on the slopes of the hills.

However, non-arable land can sometimes be converted into arable land.

Cyanobacteria can be grown on non-arable land (land not used for farming).

What that will mean is the customization of agricultural products, and the ability to grow food in parts of the world now considered non-arable.

Non-arable land is sometimes called wasteland, badlands, worthless or no man's land.

The Eco-city is sited on non-arable land.

When natural or human catastrophes occurred, the peasants could take refuge in non-arable regions of mountains and survive on wild foods other than grains.

Some examples of infertile non-arable land being turned into fertile arable land are:

'The Farmers always put their facilities on unusable real estate, rocky or sandy, or plain non-arable.

The sandy deposits to the north-east of Ingatestone help explain the greater incidence of woodland and non-arable land in this area.

More recently, Napier has been used to alleviate pressure on food production as there is 2Gha of non-arable land suitable for energy crop production.

Furthermore, it was anticipated that the soil underneath the hardened mud and lava would have been scorched and left completely non-arable by the heat of the pyroclastic flows.

The advantages of algae are that it can be grown on non-arable land such as deserts or in marine environments, and the potential oil yields are much higher than from plants.

Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility, but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom.

Biotechnology advocates in Asia believe that genetically modified crops will increase food production, significantly reduce the use of pesticides and insecticides and even create drought-resistant crops that can grow on land now regarded as non-arable.

The report from our Agricultural Committee also includes amendments to extend grant aid for producing flax and hemp to non-arable land, thus providing opportunities to diversify areas of the European Union unable to obtain monetary support under the present regime.

With the use of non-edible vegetable oils produced by trees such as Millettia Pinnata (formerly Pongamia Pinnata) or the Moringa oleifera tree, both which grow on borderline or non-arable land, the food versus fuel debate becomes less of an either/or question.

These descriptions of the often quoted non-arable areas few people would inhabit are as Twain says, "by contrast" to occasional scenes of arable land and productive agriculture: "The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile.

He orders for a planning committee to initiate the correction of land boundaries, partitioning between cultivable and non-cultivable lands.

Chlamydial cells poised in this state of metabolic latency exist as viable but non-cultivable cells that are 'abnormally' enlarged and which exhibit distinctive morphological characteristics [ 4].

Moreover, PCR can be used to amplify the DNA from organisms that are present in tissues preserved in formalin and from non-cultivable organisms (e.g. M. leprae).

Our work indicates there is probably a more dominant non-cultivable microbial community in the Antarctic soil compared to the Idaho soil, since DNA analysis indicated high numbers of microorganisms that were not reflected in viable count data.