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The country itself is the fourth wealthiest in the EU, with a GDP per capita of $52,000 (€48,000) and the CIA World Factbook lists its natural resources as petroleum, natural gas, fish, arable land, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand.
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Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Low-lying cities such as Samarkand and Tashkent, which have the arable land and irrigation necessary to support their bustling populations, are seen as having been the real destinations for trade.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
With society largely collapsed and the food production system destroyed by the depletion of arable land, fertile farms like Hailey’s where crops still grow are a precious gift that people would gladly kill for.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Low-lying cities such as Samarkand and Tashkent, which have the arable land and irrigation necessary to support their bustling populations, are seen as having been the real destinations for trade.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
With society largely collapsed and the food production system destroyed by the depletion of arable land, fertile farms like Hailey’s where crops still grow are a precious gift that people would gladly kill for.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2024
The narrative seems set sometime between roughly 1750 and 1860, when the Highland Clearances extensively depopulated Scotland’s arable lands.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Arable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arable. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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