cultivation
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The team investigated how wild plants responded to early human cultivation and found that farming practices strongly favored individuals that could compete more effectively than their wild ancestors.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
But for many farmers mango cultivation has, in recent years, become more challenging.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
He discovered hydroponics, an innovative cultivation technique where vegetables are grown not in soil, but in a solution of water enriched with essential nutrients.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
Parla says that, to an extent, the city of Gorizia has built their economy around the Rosa di Gorizia; a crisp and delicately bitter radicchio variety known for its rose-like appearance and intense cultivation process.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
The Aborigines modified and managed the surrounding landscape in ways that increased its production of edible plants and animals, without resorting to cultivation.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing cultivation
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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