Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas
English translation:
uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land; continuous tracts of cultivated land
Portuguese term
Brazil
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extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas
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Feb 23, 2016 11:23: Matheus Chaud changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1185461">Matheus Chaud's</a> old entry - "extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas"" to ""uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land continue to increase; continuous tracts of cultivated land""
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United States
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uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land continue to increase
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Nick Taylor
: But I like "tract" too.
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Thanks, Nick! I wonder: How big is a 'tract'?
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Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
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Thanks, Patricia!
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Claudio Mazotti
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Thanks, Claudio!
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increasing expansion of greenfield land
That's how I'd frame it; " greenfield" = land given over to agriculture; " brownfield" = land given over to urban development,
Will do!
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expanses of contiguous/adjacent farmland / farm plots / farmed land
Plant, which will cause the Xingu River to flood great expanses of land and many members of the indigenous tribes to lose their land.
The landscape features pine-covered hills, fields of wheat, large expanses of grazing land covered with herds of cattle.
Brazil
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continuous tracts of cultivated land
New Dimensions in Agricultural Geography: Spatial ...
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=8170224055
1992 - Agricultural geography
The eastern half of this tehsil possesses the continuous tracts of cultivated land. The western dissected part is generally covered with forests and grasses. So the ...
An Island Polity: The Archaeology of Exploitation in Melos
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0521237858
Colin Renfrew, J. Malcolm Wagstaff - 1982 - Social Science
The districts of Kipos and Tsouthalos further east contain more continuous tracts of cultivated land on relatively fertile soils derived partly from tuffs and partly ...
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tracts => extensões
tract1
trakt/
noun
plural noun: tracts
1.
an area of indefinite extent, typically a large one.
"large tracts of natural forest"
synonyms: area, region, expanse, sweep, stretch, extent, belt, swathe, zone
"large tracts of land"
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As extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas vêm aumentando cada vez mais para ampliar a produção agrícola.
The continuous tracts of cultivated land have been increasing more and more in order to expand the agricultural production.
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Gilmar Fernandes
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agradeço
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Mario Freitas
: Yes, I prefer "continuous" as well.
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agradeço
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Claudio Mazotti
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agradeço
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: But then you have to use 'continue' to finish the sentence.
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actually not - see above
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