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definition
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock
Examples of agriculture in a Sentence
Agriculture is the main industry, generally combined with cattle-raising.
The region contains most of the country's rain-fed agriculture.
Agriculture is the main industry in this rural location.
Agriculture exists only for the supply of local needs.
Agriculture subsidies can make it impossible for small-scale farmers to make a decent living.
Ever since we've had agriculture, people have been employing technology to make it better.
However, to be sustainable, agriculture must provide the farmer with a living.
Attempts have been made to apply electricity to agriculture on a commercial scale, but the exact measure of success attained remains somewhat doubtful.
Next to the pastoral industry, agriculture is the principal source of Australian wealth.
The growth of cereals is the largest department of agriculture followed.
He basically followed old agriculture; he planted a lot of seed and hoped for rain.
Subsistence peasant agriculture was not the subject of any systematic statistical surveys.
The cassava growing region of coastal Kenya is separated from cultivated areas inland by an arid belt which does not support intensive agriculture.
Agriculture, bee-keeping, silkworm-rearing and fishing are the principal occupations.
The rest of the island is mainly devoted to agriculture.
The cabinet is composed of eight ministers - the heads of the government departments of the interior, foreign affairs, finance, war, marine, justice, agriculture, and public works.
Part B outlines the new policy, which promotes sustainable agriculture, and Part C focuses on policy implementation.
In rural areas, the ongoing marginalization of poor farmers has led them to depend increasingly upon subsistence agriculture.
Agriculture stands at a low level in Russia.
Some attempts at agriculture and tree-planting are being made.
While wheat and wine constitute the staples of French agriculture, its distinguishing characteristic is the variety of its products.
Having terrified the consumer, they follow up by painting a lyrical picture of organic agriculture.
The department of agriculture has an experiment station, established by the state in 1896, in which important experiments in cotton breeding have been carried on.
In the course of three or four years, when the country became adapted to agriculture, they built themselves handsome houses, spending on them several thousands.
The natives live solely by agriculture.
The South Florida Indians, however, are not supposed to have practiced agriculture.
At Kericho we had the opportunity to walk in the Kakamega tropical rainforest, and looked at tea plantation agriculture.
In the work of Palladius on agriculture, dating from about the year A.D.
The disease was very rife in 1895, but the extensive application of the muzzling restrictions of the Board of Agriculture was accompanied by so steady a diminution in the [[Table Xxii I]].
In 1893 the Board of Agriculture took over the management, and Table XXIV.
The law under which the census of 1840 was taken contained a novel provision for the preparation in connexion with the census of statistical tables giving "such information in relation to mines, agriculture, commerce, manufactures and schools as will exhibit a full view of the pursuits, industry, education and resources of the country."
The Green Revolution transformed agriculture in a country where hunger is still an issue today.
Towns arose and agriculture began to flourish; but seeking to make itself independent, the Order lost its lands, and disappeared from Transylvania.
The nomads of the patriarchal ages, whilst mainly dependent upon their flocks and herds, practised also agriculture proper.
The duty of filling up so comprehensive a return, involving an answer to 561 questions, is not left to the householder, but entrusted to enumerators specially engaged, working under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture.
The scope of the inquiry in New South Wales was somewhat extended and made to include occupations other than agriculture and stock-breeding.
The Swedish, Norwegian, Ontario and Michigan mines yield ores of this kind; and though none of them can be profitably worked as a source of phosphate, yet on reducing the ore it may be retained in the slags, and thus rendered available for agriculture.
The phosphatic rocks which occur among the sedimentary strata are the principal sources of phosphates for commerce and agriculture.
Both of these plains are so level, and have so fertile a soil that they are the seats of extensive agriculture, especially fruit raising, which is further encouraged by the influence of the large bodies of lake water that moderate the heat of summer and the cold of winter, and tend to check the late frosts of spring and the early frosts of autumn.
The original varieties of trees still abound, though in less numbers, on lands illadapted to agriculture, and in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, where the state has established forest preserves, and the Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner began reforesting in 1901, principally with pine, spruce and larch.
Of the population of France some 17,000,000 depend upon agriculture for their livelihood, though only about 6,500,000 are engaged in work on the land.
The methods of agriculture are still unscientific and unprogressive.
It should be mentioned that the act provided that the Treasury might advance a portion of the money required for a line in cases where the council of any county, borough or district had agreed to do the same, and might also make a special advance in aid of a light railway which was certified by the Board of Agriculture to be beneficial to agriculture in any cultivated district, or by the Board of Trade to furnish a means of communication between a fishing-harbour and a market in a district where it would not be constructed without special assistance from the s' ate.
The statute of 1685, conferring on landlords a power to entail their estates, was indeed of a very different tendency in regard to its effects on agriculture.
The letters written by Sir James Caird to The Times during 1850, and republished in 1852 under the title English Agriculture in 1850-1851, give a general review of English agriculture at the time.
The last quarter of the 19th century proved, however, a fateful period for British agriculture.
To speak of " additional labour and capital " without reference to the kind and quality of the labour and capital, and the manner in which they are employed, organized and directed, throws very little light on agriculture.
The chief occupations of the people are agriculture and gardening.
They were a tall race of copper hue; fairly intelligent, mild in temperament, who lived in poor huts and practised a limited and primitive agriculture.
Extending across the great central valley of Chile, the province has a considerable area devoted to agriculture, but much attention is given to cattle and mining.