commercial agriculture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcommercialandagriculture
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commercial
adjective
uk/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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agriculture
noun[U]
uk/ˈæɡ.rɪ.kʌl.tʃər/us/ˈæɡ.rə.kʌl.tʃɚ/
farming:
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(Definition ofcommercialandagriculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Such projects are also providing employment and facilitating increased trade and the growth of smallscalecommercialagriculture.
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In the past this has been the biggest hurdle to overcome in adopting induced resistance incommercialagriculture.
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Commercialagriculturehas been a major factor in deforestation in unsustainable areas.
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However, conservatives advocated a more gradual and less thoroughgoing transition tocommercialagriculturethan even moderate liberals.
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The principal sources of wage labor in the first half of the twentieth century werecommercialagricultureand government work.
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There were of course other crops, but these were the main staples of a verycommercialagriculture.
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By far, the main source of deforestation iscommercialagriculturewhich is responsible for more than two-thirds of the total deforestation caused by farm activities.
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By contrast, modern manufacturing andcommercialagriculturecompete more directly with foreign suppliers.
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It recognises belatedly the importance of boostingcommercialagriculture.
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Increasing national demand for corn and temperate-climate vegetables have reinforced the trend towardscommercialagriculture.
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Acknowledgement of the severe and varied negative environmental consequences of contemporarycommercialagricultureis widespread.
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Second, supporting again the ' straddling ' thesis, access to patronage, state resources and non-farm investments are the principal sources of accumulation among wealthy families rather thancommercialagriculture.
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Regional institutions thus remain ' suspended above' localities - with 'administrative occupation ' by state agents in areas with fiscally lucrativecommercialagriculture, and 'nonincorporation ' elsewhere.
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Hence, not until liberals took power from conservatives did an explosion ofcommercialagricultureand primary product exportation occur.
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The last sub-period, 1860-1894, represents a new era ofcommercialagriculture, early industrialization and a labour market for wage labourers, and of the modernization of society in general.
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In the 1850s and 1860s, farming evolved intocommercialagriculturein response to the expanding demands of a regional market and aided by population growth, mechanization, and railroad construction.
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Ochieng (2005) has argued that whilst these innovations were successful in integrating smallholders intocommercialagricultureas primary commodity producers, they were not geared towards agricultural value-addition or value innovation.
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The risks of the introduction of genetically modified crops intocommercialagricultureare being openly discussed and closely regulated.
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Its characteristic medium height and large fruit yields make it ideal forcommercialagriculture.
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