Synonym: cultivation, farming, husbandry. Similar words: agricultural, culture, cultural, difficult, curriculum, sculpture, particular, articulate. Meaning: ['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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91. The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources.
92. College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. Elbert Hubbard
93. About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
94. The report, co-drafted with the agriculture ministry, also outlined the amount lent by agricultural cooperatives to the jusen.
95. From this time on the position of subsistence agriculture declined in other regions, though the pace of this change was uneven.
96. Painstaking accuracy was not absolutely essential to the needs of agriculture, however.
97. Between 300,000 and 800,000 children like Damaris are working as hired laborers in commercial U.S. agriculture today.
98. But on many streams which mink have colonised, particularly those close to intensive agriculture, fish are no longer abundant.
99. Since almost all are high mountain areas, agricultural development is anyway unlikely but traditional agriculture for conservation objectives is supported.
100. The most obvious one is commercial animal agriculture in its dominant form.
101. Consultations between the agriculture departments and the Home Office are in progress to develop procedures and criteria for issuing licences.
102. Under previous legislation the procedures usually involved consultation between the agriculture departments and the then Nature Conservancy Council.
103. Local wildlife and agriculture are likely to be badly affected, environmentalists claim.
104. What is the expected response of farmers in industrialised countries to sustainable agriculture?
105. Agriculture minister Nick Brown made this admission in a letter to shadow farm minister Tim Yeo.
106. But Peter Walker, the agriculture minister, opposes the idea of a new law.
107. Earlier, Green Party co-leader Renate Kuenast as appointed agriculture minister.
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108. Farming More intensive agriculture has led to increased concentrations of nitrate in groundwater in many areas.
109. Of the three sectors, applications in energy appeared to be the most advanced and in agriculture the least.
110. It involves the whole political economy of modern agriculture - and that includes consumers and politicians as well as producers.
111. Hence sustainable agriculture could replace unsustainable agriculture, reducing the impact of erosion and flooding on downstream agricultural areas.
112. The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
113. On April 28 the agriculture ministers will meet in Brussels.
114. No distinction is made between losses due to agriculture and afforestation.
115. The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.
116. Agriculture also stands accused of exacerbating sexual inequality.
117. Revitalising global agriculture will not be easy.
118. Amorphophallus is a monocotyledonous perennial herb. Konjac glucomannan which is rich in the corm has been applied widely in food, medicine, chemistry and agriculture industry.
119. They generally hold a bachelor's degree in fields such as ecology, agriculture, biology or environmental science.
120. In this one new history period, agriculture appeared to be challenged austerely, also welcomed new opportunity.
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