The untended fields and the warm and dry summer have combined to provide a splendid breeding-ground for the swarms of locusts.
Although the government often invokes fears of an Islamist insurgency to justify its heavy-handedness, such a secular, stable country seems an unlikely breeding-ground for religious radicals.
The nightmare prospect is that Turkey's farmers, about 45% of the nation, with no more state subsidies to keep them afloat, will flock to the cities, whose swollen shanty-towns are already a fertile breeding-ground for extremists, be they Islamists, Kurds or others.
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It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
That hits the country's staggering 15% unemployment rate--20% for people 30 and younger, the breeding ground for new militants--and does little to help provide for a population that is growing at 3% a year.
Chaudhery hopes that Nano City will in time become a breeding ground for would-be billionaires.
There is a risk of leaving an unstable or even disintegrated Iraq that might be a new breeding ground for anti-American terrorists.
Hoarding can become dangerous when debris gets piled so high that it falls and injures someone, or when the debris serves as a breeding ground for disease-causing toxic mold or vermin.
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Mr Chesworth said that in his south of England region there was a cast-iron case for designating, among others, Bembridge Levels on the Isle of Wight - home of the stalked jellyfish and Poole Harbour - a key breeding ground for sea horses.
Aided and abetted by Islamist governments in the Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan and a never-ending supply of young zealots mass-produced by thousands of radical madrassas tolerated by the regime, the jihadists are talibanizing vast stretches of the country and turning it into a breeding ground for home-grown and foreign terrorists alike.
This model has proved successful in many parts of the world and provides hope in others, such as the impoverished, war-torn, terrorist breeding ground of Mindanao in the Philippines.
In Punjab province, which is the breeding ground of sectarian militants, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and its parent organisation, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, have a strong electoral presence due mainly to the state patronage they enjoyed during the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf.
Anthony Holmes, director of the Africa program for the Council on Foreign Relations, said it is unlikely Somalia will emerge as "a breeding ground for terrorism" because of its clan-based society.
This underground business, involving as it does hungry sellers and desperate buyers, is a fecund breeding ground for scoundrels and scam artists, despite the high-minded claims of saving lives.
California is also baseball's most fertile breeding ground, producing 22% of all U.S.-born major leaguers last season, with enough stars from its southern third to fill an all-time roster, from Jackie Robinson (Pasadena) to Gary Carter (Culver City).
The 23-year-old hails from a village in the Rift Valley, the traditional breeding ground for the seemingly endless stream of Kenyan distance runners who have enjoyed such success in distances from 800 meters to the marathon.
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"Isolation can be a breeding ground for depression and deviancy, " said Irwin, a psychotherapist who works with court-mandated parolees and probationers in California.
Experts identified the area as an environmentally fragile cheetah breeding ground, and a 1996 management plan aimed to protect the vulnerable species by banning jeep-led safaris, which could interrupt hunts or scare and separate families.
Gen Art, a breeding ground for young talent in arts and entertainment, was back on the runway after a two-year hiatus.
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Over several hours of testimony an executive from Ohio's Department of Agriculture recounted a 2004 visit to Ohio Fresh Eggs, the nation's seventh-largest producer, where he saw hens afflicted with diarrhea and giant piles of wet manure, a breeding ground for maggots.
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