Railroads promised land to people willing to settle it, and the period between 1877 and 1890 was wetter than usual, leading to unrealistic expectations of land productivity.
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Sanchez, an agronomist who heads the tropical agriculture program at Columbia University's Earth Institute, is a soil scientist studying land productivity in developing countries . _ Lateefah Simon, 26, San Francisco.
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Land productivity for these leaders shows similar patterns, with Malaysia ( 6 percent a year ) at the top of the league, followed by Indonesia ( 5.5 percent ) and China ( 5 percent ).
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Land productivity for these leaders shows similar patterns, with Malaysia ( 6 percent a year ) at the top of the league, followed by Indonesia ( 5 . 5 percent ) and China ( 5 percent ).
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The "'State Land and Cartography Committee of Azerbaijan Republic "'( ) is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of implementing land cadastre, monitoring and reforms; restoration and increasing of land productivity, setting territorial units in Azerbaijan Republic.
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The beginning of British administration also led to a large influx of service holders and professionals from Bengal, Rajasthan, Nepal, etc . To increase land productivity, the British encouraged Muslim peasants from Mymensingh district of present-day Bangladesh to settle in Assam that began in 1901.
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Although, it could be argued that land productivity increased, the ( agricultural ) food exports from Algeria to France soared from 9.7 to in excess of 125million French Francs for only the ports of Algiers, Annaba, and Oran over the period of 1838-40 to 1885-87.
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"The failure to take into account such trends as aquifer depletion, the diminishing response of grain yields to fertilizer, the cumulative effects of soil erosion on land productivity, and the effects of increasingly frequent crop-withering heat waves on yields has contributed to the widening gap between Bank and FAO projections of grain production since 1990 and the real world production trends . " the report said.
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Part of waste lands ( 32, 000 square km ) when installed with solar power plants can produce 2000 billion kWh of electricity ( two times the total generation in 2013-14 ) with land productivity / yield of 1.25 million Rs per acre ( 5 Rs / kWh price ) which is at par with many industrial areas and many times more than the best productive irrigated agriculture lands.
