The need for a labor force to meet the growing demands of sugar cane cultivation led to an exponential increase in the importation of slaves over the following two decades.

The cultivation of sugar cane and coffee by African slave labour made Jamaica one of the most valuable possessions in the world for more than 150 years.

As the demand for labor in the West Indies grew with the cultivation of sugar cane, Europeans enslaved Native Americans for the Thirteen Colonies, and some were exported to the " sugar islands.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, massive deforestation was undertaken by the planters as the land was initially cleared for sugar cultivation.

During times of maximum cultivation, sugar cane fields stretched from the coastline of Nevis up to an altitude at which the mountain slopes were too steep and rocky to farm.

The years of monocrop cultivation, as well as heavy amounts of soil erosion due to the high slope grade on the island, caused its sugar production to continuously decrease.

The cultivation of sugar was a labour intensive process and the Portuguese began to import large numbers of slaves from the African mainland.

Barbados eventually had one of the world's biggest sugar industries after starting sugar cane cultivation in 1640.

The sugar beet, like sugarcane, needs a peculiar soil and a unique climate for its successful cultivation.

Sunshine of long duration but not of great intensity is the most important factor in the successful cultivation of sugar beets.

* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.

* 1000 – The Arab Empire introduced agricultural innovations such as new forms of land tenure, improvements in irrigation, a variety of sophisticated irrigation methods, the introduction of fertilizers and widespread artificial irrigation systems, the development of gravity-flow irrigation systems from rivers and springs, the use of noria and chain pumps for irrigation purposes, the establishment of the sugar cane industry in the Mediterranean, and experimentation in sugar cultivation

Fewer than of original forests have survived the 300 years of sugar cultivation.

During the 1920s and 1930s farmers increasingly lost their land to absentee landowners, mostly American companies, that turned to the cultivation of sugar cane and, to a lesser extent, tobacco for export.

The early growth of agriculture, which depended highly on direct river irrigation, experienced a second boom in 1902 with the introduction of the cultivation of sugar beets, accompanied by the construction of the large processing plant of the Great Western Sugar Co. in Loveland.

The cultivation of sugar cane was the principal agricultural industry in the parish.

As the sugar industry declined in the nineteenth century, cultivation of arrowroot was developed to fill the void.

He engaged in sugar cultivation until his death in 1816.

As the sugar cane cultivation was labor-intensive, the concentration of slaves greatly outnumbered the ethnic Europeans in the colony, a circumstance that continued after the Louisiana Purchase by the United States in the early 19th century ..

The primary industry in the region is agriculture, including the cultivation of Russet potatoes, sugar beets, onions, corn, flower seed, mint, and wheat.

The economy is based on the cultivation of cereals and sugar beet, and on the food industry.

At what he called " The Big Cane Brake ," Eldret had Northup and other slaves do the heavy work of clearing cane, trees and undergrowth in order to develop cotton fields for cultivation.

Sugar cane cultivation began in the 1640s, after its introduction in 1637 by Pieter Blower.

Ship building and cane cultivation have become a major force of growth.

Oil wealth, sugar cane cultivation, and more recently tourism continue to stimulate its growing economy.

Many of these lands were previously used for sugar cane cultivation, but sugar cane is no longer harvested in most of Puerto Rico.

The main source of income is agriculture, particularly sugar cane cultivation, but rice, corn, beans, pineapples, sorghum, and mangoes are also grown here.

Sugar cane was introduced to Marbella in 1644, the cultivation of which spread on the Málaga province coast, resulting in the construction of numerous sugar mills, such as Trapiche del Prado de Marbella.

Its economy is fueled by the cultivation of sugar cane.

The lower left quarter of the municipal Coat of Arms pay homage to tobacco cultivation and sugar cane processing.

The sugar cane stems refer to the cultivation and industry, that represented the main source of wealth of Toa Baja ; the wealth is represented by gold of the field of the shield.

The main industry in the town and its surrounding countryside is that of sugar cane cultivation and processing.

The economy is predominantly agricultural, based on the cultivation of soybeans, corn, cotton and sugar cane.

Particular kinds of aquaculture include fish farming, shrimp farming, oyster farming, algaculture ( such as seaweed farming ), and the cultivation of ornamental fish.

Although not normally thought of as biotechnology, agriculture clearly fits the broad definition of " using a biotechnological system to make products " such that the cultivation of plants may be viewed as the earliest biotechnological enterprise.

However, most vegetation has now been converted to agriculture and forest fragments are now restricted to areas where cultivation is not possible, such as mountain peaks and steep slopes.

74 percent of the population in the Central African Republic works in the agriculture industry, so Central African Republic's economy is dominated by the cultivation and sale of foodcrops such as yams, cassava, peanuts, maize, sorghum, millet, sesame, and plantains.

By allowing it to run to seed and through deliberate cultivation by the town of Dachau the canal is only still recognizable as such between Frühlingstrasse and the Pollnbach.

Most land under cultivation in 1992 was planted in bananas, coffee, and specialized export crops such as melons and winter vegetables.

During the 16th century, Ashante society experienced sudden changes, including population growth because of cultivation of New World plants such as cassava and maize and an increase in the gold trade between the coast and the north.

In it Anatoli manifests a wide acquaintance not only with the classic Jewish exegetes, but also with Plato, Aristotle, Averroes, and the Vulgate, as well as with a large number of Christian institutions, some of which he ventures to criticize, such as celibacy and monastic castigation, as well as certain heretics ( compare 15a, 98a, 115a ); and he repeatedly appeals to his readers for a broader cultivation of the classic languages and the profane branches of learning.

The 1961 convention prohibits cultivation and trade of naturally-occurring drugs such as cannabis ; the 1971 treaty bans the manufacture and trafficking of synthetic drugs such as barbiturates and amphetamines ; and the 1988 convention requires states to criminalize illicit drug possession:

: Subject to its constitutional principles and the basic concepts of its legal system, each Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish as a criminal offence under its domestic law, when committed intentionally, the possession, purchase or cultivation of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for personal consumption contrary to the provisions of the 1961 Convention, the 1961 Convention as amended or the 1971 Convention.

During the winter months in mountainous Northern Thailand, the temperature is cool enough for the cultivation of fruits such as lychees and strawberries.

Land ownership was regulated, and large-scale works such as dykes were conducted in the Red River Delta to facilitate wet rice cultivation.

In Peru, cultivation of the indigenous cotton species Gossypium barbadense was the backbone of the development of coastal cultures, such as the Norte Chico, Moche and Nazca.

Specialized archaeologists called palaeoethnobotanists, relying on data such as the relative abundance of charred grains found in archaeological sites, hypothesize that the cultivation of millets was of greater prevalence in prehistory than rice, especially in northern China and Korea.

The soil at Glasnevin is strongly alkaline ( in horticultural terms ) and this restricts the cultivation of calcifuge plants such as rhododendrons to specially prepared areas.

Archaeological and literary evidence such as the Book of Numbers 11: 5 suggests cultivation probably took place around two thousand years later in ancient Egypt, at the same time that leeks and garlic were cultivated.

Among the cultural traits that the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan shared with many other cultures of central Mexico are the agricultural basis of maize cultivation, the basic social organization dividing society into classes of noble pipiltin and macehualli commoners, the complex religious beliefs and practices including most of the pantheon ( e. g. gods such as Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl ), the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days.

The cultivation, sale, and possession of unprocessed coca leaf ( but not of any processed form of cocaine ) is generally legal in the countries – such as Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina – where traditional use is established, although cultivation is often restricted in an attempt to prevent the production of cocaine.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.