Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 6 | 569 | The soil of tropical View more quotes about areas">areas, contrary to popular understanding, is not one of great agricultural fertility. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 6 | 566 | It is not really dry but actually a season of less rain. |
| 6 | 567 | During the rains of the rainy season seeds could be torn out of the ground and fields half washed away. |
| 6 | 568 | The equatorial farmer, incidentally, often moves his fields after two or three seasons as the soil, depleted of many minerals and nutriments by the centuries of terrible rains, is quickly exhausted by his croppage. |
| 6 | 569 | The soil of tropical areas, contrary to popular understanding, is not one of great agricultural fertility. |
| 6 | 570 | Jungles, which usually spring up along rivers or in the vicinity of river systems, can thrive in a soil which would not nourish fields of food grains. |
| 6 | 571 | The farmers about Schendi are, in a sense, more gardeners than farmers. |
| 6 | 572 | When a field is exhausted the farmer clears a new area and begins again. |
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It is not really dry but actually a season of less rain.
During the rains of the rainy season seeds could be torn out of the ground and fields half washed away.
The equatorial farmer, incidentally, often moves his fields after two or three seasons as the soil, depleted of many minerals and nutriments by the centuries of terrible rains, is quickly exhausted by his croppage.
The soil of tropical areas, contrary to popular understanding, is not one of great agricultural fertility.
Jungles, which usually spring up along rivers or in the vicinity of river systems, can thrive in a soil which would not nourish fields of food grains.
The farmers about Schendi are, in a sense, more gardeners than farmers.
When a field is exhausted the farmer clears a new area and begins again.
- (Explorers of Gor)