What is "cultivable"

Usage examples of "cultivable".

In fact, I came rightly to the conclusion that the more southerly the United States route, and the more northerly the British route--while always, in the latter case, keeping within cultivable range--the better.

By 1960, with the population at 26 million, the Russians—the new foreign protectors of Egypt—began erecting the High Dam, which increased cultivable land by 30 percent, doubled the country’s electric power supply, and created a reservoir (called Lake Nasser in Egypt and Lake Nubia south of the Sudan border) that guaranteed a strategic water reserve for Egypt in times of drought.

GAP impounded the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates, and created new farmland equal to the total cultivable area of the Netherlands.

Now they've got over a thousand people, and they can't increase production because there's no more cultivable land.

On Soris II we knew that if we could get the water out of the mud inside this coffee-dam, we'd have cultivable ground.

Since cultivable land was precious (and, at some seasons, actually under water), the ancients built their tombs in the desert.