荒あれ地ちを拓ひらく

expression, godan verb (-ku)

open up unbroken land; cultivate wasteland

Used for the pioneering act of clearing and developing wild or abandoned land for agriculture or settlement.

• 開かい拓たく者しゃたちは荒あれ地ちを拓ひらいて農のう場じょうを作つくった。

  The pioneers opened up the wasteland and built a farm.