English-Dutch translations for cultivation

• bewerking
  De boeren leggen elk jaar bijna een miljoen hectare bos in de as om gronden voor bewerking vrij te maken. De heer Swoboda heeft daarop zopas nog gewezen. Every year, the farmers burn almost a million hectares to free land or for cultivation to produce food - Mr Swoboda alluded to this a moment ago.
• teelt
  Legale teelt zou bovenop de illegale teelt komen en deze niet vervangen. Licit cultivation would add to illicit cultivation, not replace it.
  Over de teelt van drugsgewassen werd hier al gesproken. Drugs cultivation has also been mentioned.
  Mijnheer de Voorzitter, wij willen het moratorium op de commerciële teelt behouden. We want to retain the moratorium on commercial cultivation.

Definition of cultivation

• The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture
• The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
• Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something
• Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition

Synonyms

• education

Examples

• The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion
• These fields are in cultivation.
• His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.
• She is a woman of great cultivation.

Related words

• overcultivation
• self-cultivation
• cultivation of rice
• cultivation of one's native language
• area of cultivation
• apple cultivation
• coffee cultivation
• date palm cultivation
• field crop cultivation