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Sentence count:165+11Posted:2016-07-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: cultivationfarminghusbandrySimilar words: agriculturalcultureculturaldifficultcurriculumsculptureparticulararticulateMeaning: ['ægrɪkʌltʃə]  n. 1. a large-scale farming enterprise 2. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock 3. the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 4. the class of people engaged in growing food. 
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61. The shift from the main traditional occupation, agriculture, to unskilled labour, was considerable.
62. Most are ill-adapted to the demands of modern, mechanised agriculture and, unless converted to new uses, may well disappear.
63. Exporters will face extra charges for transporting animals inspected by independently nominated veterinarians, said junior agriculture minister Elliot Morley.
64. Agriculture Minister Nick Brown said measures are now in place to start moving animals from areas unaffected by foot-and-mouth to abattoirs.
65. One battleground in the debate is the issue of whether biotechnology threatens sustainable agriculture.
66. While companies talk about sustainable agriculture, they create plant varieties that can withstand being sprayed by their most virulent herbicides.
67. Quietly, slowly and significantly, sustainable agriculture is sweeping the farming systems of the world.
68. Rawcliffe's good communications systems serve the local industries in agriculture and manufacturing.
69. Agriculture was California; there were no sprawling defense and aerospace industries, there was no Silicon Valley.
70. By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
71. We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
72. The next major phase of land degradation came after the abolition of slavery in 1838 and the rise of peasant agriculture.
73. The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
74. Renate Ku nast, the new food and agriculture minister, will also have responsibility for consumer affairs.
75. Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
76. With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Bertrand Russell 
77. This project was promoted by Lord Egremont who wished to improve the condition of local agriculture by upgrading transport facilities.
77. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
78. The problem is that traditional slash-and-burn agriculture is still the only option most farmers know.
79. They include the departments of health, trade and industry and social security, the agriculture ministry, and local authorities.
80. Doing that seems to imply that the much mooted conflict between conservation and agriculture is more imaginary than real.
81. Most of the conflicts concerning agriculture and amenity also occur in a particularly acute form on the urban fringe.
82. The more technically advanced agriculture becomes, the smaller is its dependency on natural endowments.
83. Extensification for meat production purposes is therefore an option that is consistent with sustainable agriculture.
84. I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares. George Washington 
85. It is essential that sustainable agriculture be developed in the areas already deforested and settled.
86. The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
87. By the 1870s sufficient of world agriculture was in the second position to make agrarian depression both world-wide and politically explosive.
88. Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture.
89. Powys was an area of intensive agriculture, predominantly sheep breeding.
90. It is important to distinguish between integrated agriculture and organic farming.
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