cultivation
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These efforts cut off families' incomes but failed to stem cultivation.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The wine-country startup wanted to revolutionize the cultivation of grapes and other fruit with $100,000 robotractors, but the technology didn’t work well enough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Because plant factories allow growers to carefully control these factors, the findings may help support the development of specialized lettuce varieties optimized for indoor cultivation systems.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Food labeled as organic in the state of California has to be registered with the California Department of Food and Agriculture and conform to principles of cultivation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethnobiological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The new program will attempt to prosecute underlying labor crimes, environmental crimes and the underground economy centered around the illicit cultivations, said Attorney General Rob Bonta.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
Rowe said she and other officials want to fund an eradication campaign that “will come down so hard and so often on these cultivations that they won’t be able to survive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2021
Today, any Franklinia trees you might encounter in cemeteries, gardens and parks are descendants of Mr. Bartram’s cultivations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
The new cultivations are challenging long-held beliefs in some conservative communities, including this one, where a rural libertarian streak is confronting a crop still stigmatized despite its legality.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2018
Other genera of South American ants—Apterostigma and Cyphomyrmex—make similar fungal cultivations, but they use wood, grain or dung as the substratum instead of leaf fragments.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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