耕地 | gēng dì | arable land; to plow land | |
退耕还林 | tuì gēng huán lín | restoring agricultural land to forest | |
春耕 | chūn gēng | to plow a field in the spring | |
耕作 | gēng zuò | farming | |
耕耘 | gēng yún | plowing and weeding; farm work; fig. to work or study diligently |
1 | Company lies fallow for months. | |
2 | All of Nature must at some point rest and fall fallow. | |
3 | Secondary forest or other vegetation reclaims the clearing during the fallow period. | |
4 | The pilot project has been introducing alternative farming practices, such as integrated and diversified farming instead of mono-cropping, which is a relatively new thing here. | |
5 | High-yield seeds and ample fertilizer allow China to feed its billion-plus people on less than 10 percent of the Earth's arable land. |