cultivation

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However, other than Revueltas’ fictional account, the story of the laborers, their movement’s successes and the astonishing cultivation of the desert lands had been lost to history — until now.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

This marks a break from the traditional practice of shifting cultivation, which involves clearing a new patch of forest each year -- fuelling conflicts in a region facing rapid population growth.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

As a result, the leftover flour is free from processing contaminants, aside from residues already present from agricultural sunflower cultivation.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 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

Only over a thousand years later, with the introduction of the ox-drawn plow, were those farmers able to extend cultivation to a much wider range of heavy soils and tough sods.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond