uncultivable

Much of the land allocated proved uncultivable - because it was affected by salinity; waterlogged, unleveled or had multiple ownership claims - which led to protracted legal battles.

Caroline Gluck: HELPING THE LANDLESS BECOME LANDOWNERS 2010

In their undeveloped corner of the Himalayas, these people still dress in traditional tribal clothes, barter their produce and scratch a living from land that would be discarded as uncultivable in most Western countries.

Daniel Keeler: The Big Green Gamble 2008

Elevation can modify soil quality, particularly in the case of a valley or depression (nkova) where the ground will retain humidity longer and so be productive even when land of the same soil type in a higher area is rendered uncultivable because of drought.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Mecca Valley described as an “uncultivable valley” Abraham 14/37 had an area of desert quality and its climate was hot and dry.

Campaigning In The Bull Ring Praguetory 2007

With agriculture the backbone of socio-economic development on the continent, uncleared mines have rendered vast tracts of land uncultivable, said Chinamasa.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Though the pines themselves have not been planted much longer than a hundred years, they now appear as the only relics of a lonely and rather bare tract of uncultivable desert.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

The great pine forests below were a cheerful contrast to the illimitable fields of ice and snow and uncultivable lands which they had so lately traversed.

Doctor Jones' Picnic

For the sea, the uncultivable sea, as Homer calls it, is itself a road, whereas on earth, whether it be mountain or desert or field, roads have first painfully to be made.

Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903

A thousand times that day, in the dark swamp, on the wide prairie, or under his rush-thatch on the lake-side, he tortured himself with one question: Why had she -- Zoséphine -- reached away out from Carancro to buy the uncultivable and primeval wilderness round about his lonely hiding-place?

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

Cooper says: "We cannot say positively that any plant is uncultivable ANYWHERE until it has been tried;" and this seems to be even more true of wild than of domesticated vegetation.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical) 1874