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n. - The cultivation of soil for raising crops; Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.

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  • Good tillage, which is too often neglected, is valuable.
  • Ejida -- State run cooperative farm, for produce, animals, and/or greenhouses (as opposed to a Manage curtilage or tillage, which is for an individual family).
  • They have proved themselves apt pupils, and today you will see in the glens of the Berg and in the plains Kaffir tillage which is as scientific as any in Africa.
  • This creates efficiency during busy production times such as tillage, fertilizing, planting, spraying and harvest.
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