industrial agriculture

collocation in English

meaningsofindustrialandagriculture

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industrial
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/us
/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl/
in or related to industry, or having a lot of industry and ...
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agriculture
noun[U]
uk
/ˈæɡ.rɪ.kʌl.tʃər/us
/ˈæɡ.rə.kʌl.tʃɚ/
farming:
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(Definition ofindustrialandagriculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofindustrial agriculture

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This third reason is important because it implies that farmers adopt organic practices to resist the concentration and consolidation ofindustrialagriculture.
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Similarly,industrialagriculturehas destroyed many natural refugia in croplands that helped conserve wild biodiversity apart from being destructive of traditional social and cultural practices.
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Moreover, both the zoological and theindustrialagriculturediscourses are alien to the discourse of relationships and social reflection.
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The literary authors who argue forindustrialagricultureturn out to be women.
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Space travel,industrialagricultureand 'cybernetic' management of information networks all promised to improve the political influence of knowledge producers.
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Unfortunately, a lot of inherited knowledge and farmers' lore has been lost inindustrialagriculture, where animals have been reduced to production units and commodities.
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Any more kow-towing toindustrialagriculturewould lead in the longer term to our most important drinking water resources being destroyed once and for all.
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Unfortunately,industrialagriculture, which could have attracted part of the female work force in the villages, itself underwent destructuring.
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Certainly, one can agree thatindustrialagricultureis not environmentally friendly.
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But even without this, are we really right to encourage great areas of the world to be given over toindustrialagriculture?
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Organic farming can represent a real alternative to intensive andindustrialagriculture, which has sinned by excess.
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Numerous studies have shown that, in comparison to food produced byindustrialagriculture, organic food has higher levels of easilyabsorbed vitamins, minerals and other healthpromoting substances.
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It is reallyindustrialagriculture.
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Today there is also too large a focus onindustrialagricultureand foreign policy and military projects, and not enough on the environment and social projects.
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It is widely used in modernindustrialagricultureand its implementation has allowed for large harvests from minimal labour.
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The alliance's website tends to supportindustrialagriculturesuch as genetically modified crops, while questioning the value of alternative agricultural practices (e.g., free-range chickens).
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Carp argued that the land's division into small plots was inoperable, and therefore not desirable, and only sawindustrialagricultureemerging from the historical estates.
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Inindustrialagriculture, machinery is used to automate the feeding process, reducing the cost and increasing the scale of farming.
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As farm production has largely moved away from the family farms and towards anindustrialagriculture model, there is an increased need for wage labor.
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Inindustrialagriculture, energy is used in on-farm mechanisation, food processing, storage, and transportation processes.
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