sombra sembrada

English translation: existing trees that shade [the crop]

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Spanish term or phrase:sombra sembrada
English translation:existing trees that shade [the crop]
Entered by: Manuel Aburto

19:58 May 23, 2015
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture / farming practice
Spanish term or phrase: sombra sembrada
Estimados colegas,

Estoy traduciendo un documento relacionado con el campo de la agricultura, un poco confuso o ambiguo por cierto:

El que no haya diversidad en la “sombra” sembrada para cubrir a las plantaciones de café, ya que se usan árboles maderables; incide en la poca y en algunas comunidades nula disponibilidad alimentaria, donde sólo consumen musáceas que son encontradas en los plantíos de café.

Pienso que planted shades es muy literal y posiblemente poco natural en inglés.

Podría ser shades resulting from planted trees?
Manuel Aburto
Nicaragua
Local time: 04:59
existing trees that shade [the crop]
Explanation:
"Sembrada" means that they were already planted.

BTW, I'm currently doing a technical translation on shading for vegetable crops.

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Note added at 5 hrs (2015-05-24 01:43:49 GMT)
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Note: Whereas we tend to think of "sembrar" meaning to sow, the verb is widely used to refer to any planting process. The first time I heard a workman tell me that he "sembró" a fair-sized palm tree I was puzzled.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 03:59
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3 +2trees grown for shade
maría bergós
4 +1existing trees that shade [the crop]
Muriel Vasconcellos
3shade (trees) grown to cover...
Rosario Meriles


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shade (trees) grown to cover...


Explanation:
or " to use a shaded system to cultivate coffee" or
" to cultivate coffee under a shade cover."

"coffe plantations are grown in shades or shade trees" in opposition to timber trees.

Example sentence(s):
  • Traditionally coffee was grown in mixed forest shade...

    Reference: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/PK_Nair/publication/2270...
Rosario Meriles
Argentina
Local time: 07:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
trees grown for shade


Explanation:
¿Qué te parece esta posibilidad?


    https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=mPgV37g8ox8C&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=%22trees+grown+for+shade%22&source=bl&ots=H2fU3yJAut&sig=Lu5NuHwvGs7
maría bergós
Uruguay
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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agree  Gillian Holmes
9 hrs
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agree  Jacob Z. (X)
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
existing trees that shade [the crop]


Explanation:
"Sembrada" means that they were already planted.

BTW, I'm currently doing a technical translation on shading for vegetable crops.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 hrs (2015-05-24 01:43:49 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Note: Whereas we tend to think of "sembrar" meaning to sow, the verb is widely used to refer to any planting process. The first time I heard a workman tell me that he "sembró" a fair-sized palm tree I was puzzled.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 03:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 140

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agree  neilmac
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil!
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