0 land that is found on the edge of cultivated areas and is often difficult to grow crops on
1 farming land that is of poor quality and does not produce much profit:
As a result, expanding colonial presence pushed indigenous populations onto increasingly marginal land.
Improving the techniques used by hillside farmers on marginal land may be part of the story.
During 1979-80, marginal land holdings constituted 53.06 per cent of the total holdings and 15 per cent of the total area.
This will be especially damaging if they only have access to marginal land or to humid tropical forest frontiers.
The extensive network of terracing and irrigation were abandoned, and farmers were forced to migrate to lower altitudes to farm marginal land.
The text reveals, besides a form of very marginal land use, also a change in the scientific perception of the marsh.
The increase in production has resulted mainly from the extension of the area under cultivation and the use of marginal land previously devoted to livestock for grazing and browsing.
Much of it is on hill or marginal land.
