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extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas

English translation: uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land; continuous tracts of cultivated land

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
Entered by: Matheus Chaud

02:39 Feb 21, 2016
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture
Portuguese term or phrase: extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas
As extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas vêm aumentando cada vez mais para ampliar a produção agrícola.

Sugestões?

Grato!
Matheus Chaud
Brazil
Local time: 11:19
uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land continue to increase
Explanation:
My interpretation.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 07:19
Grading comment
Thank you all!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land continue to increase
Muriel Vasconcellos
4 +3continuous tracts of cultivated land
airmailrpl
4increasing expansion of greenfield land
Andrew Bramhall
3expanses of contiguous/adjacent farmland / farm plots / farmed land
Ana Vozone


Discussion entries: 3





  

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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
uninterrupted stretches of cultivated land continue to increase


Explanation:
My interpretation.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 07:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 76
Grading comment
Thank you all!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nick Taylor: But I like "tract" too.
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Nick! I wonder: How big is a 'tract'?
agree  Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
11 hrs
  -> Thanks, Patricia!
agree  Claudio Mazotti
14 hrs
  -> Thanks, Claudio!
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
increasing expansion of greenfield land


Explanation:
"There has been an increasing expansion of greenfield land in order to further agricultural production";

That's how I'd frame it; " greenfield" = land given over to agriculture; " brownfield" = land given over to urban development,

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
expanses of contiguous/adjacent farmland / farm plots / farmed land


Explanation:
Another suggestion.

Example sentence(s):
  • 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.
Ana Vozone
Local time: 15:19
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 24
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
continuous tracts of cultivated land


Explanation:
extensões de áreas contínuas cultivadas => 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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Note added at 13 hrs (2016-02-21 16:16:04 GMT)
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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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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2016-02-22 05:37:00 GMT)
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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.

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 11:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gilmar Fernandes
5 hrs
  -> agradeço
agree  Mario Freitas: Yes, I prefer "continuous" as well.
5 hrs
  -> agradeço
agree  Claudio Mazotti
8 hrs
  -> agradeço
neutral  Muriel Vasconcellos: But then you have to use 'continue' to finish the sentence.
17 hrs
  -> actually not - see above
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