However, these findings are restricted to a fraction of (known) cultivable and viable bacteria only.
Conversely, more cultivable land might have been available during periods of low sea stands as these wetlands retreated.
About 42% of households had no cultivable land and the mean amount of land was 1061 decimals per household.
Large canal irrigation systems crisscrossed and broke up grazing grounds and converted some of them into cultivable land.
More recently, however, renting has become a more common mode for migrants to obtain access to cultivable land.
Both land holdings and cultivable plots are mainly in the small and medium categories (2-5 and 5.1-20 bighas,6 respectively).
The lack of cultivable land restricts agricultural activities to just the few dry months of winter.
Cultivable wastelands were allocated in the 1950s to villages in proportion to their livestock population at that time.
