0 an area of land where the ground is very dry and where the air is often full of dust --
1 an area of land that is so dry that it is impossible to grow crops there: --
It is akin to the agricultural practice which led to dust bowls, where forests were ruthlessly cut down in pursuit of short-term profit without concern for the longer term.
There, the arid dust bowls were transformed into prosperous and fertile areas.
There are many lessons from history in every continent along these lines—the creation of great dust bowls and deserts, for example.
The diverting of so much water from the valley transformed it from an agricultural valley into a dust bowl.
Farming in the area was severely impacted by the dust bowl.
That is dust bowl husbandry.
What produced the dust bowl there?
After only some months, it has deteriorated to a dust bowl.
