commercial grower

collocation in English

meaningsofcommercialandgrower

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commercial
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us
/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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grower
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.ər/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɚ/
a person who grows large amounts of a particular plant or crop in order to ...
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(Definition ofcommercialandgrowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are 1,000 acres of cloches in use by over 5,000 commercial growers.
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I should like us to be clear about that, as some of the public discussion seems to have confused traditional orchards with the more modern commercial growers.
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Imperator types are the most widely cultivated by commercial growers.
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Commercial growers of bromeliads, including pineapple plants, use ethene to induce flowering.
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The plant does produce bulbils that may be planted, but commercial growers prefer to use the frequent suckers, which develop more quickly.
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One was a largecommercialgrowerof salad crops and it was not surprising that this company supplied more than one wholesaler.
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I approach this question of tariffs with a due sense of responsibility to the house wife and to thecommercialgrowerof fruit and vegetables.
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I wonder what price will be charged for that stock when it is sold to thecommercialgrower.
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That cannot be in anybody's interest and nocommercialgrowercan rejoice about it.
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Therefore, frost is less of a problem than it would be for acommercialgrowerwho wants fruit which is affected by frost damage to blossom.
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We believe that thecommercialgrowerand the horticultural industry as a whole, with its turnover of £160 million a year, have an important contribution to make to the national economy.
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Due to their high cost and low light output they remain unused by thecommercialgrower.
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The company claims to be the onlycommercialgrowerof this fruit anywhere in the world.
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However, commercial growers cannot exploit the potential of the butenolide for large-scale production of crops due to limited availability and environmental constraints.
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Advisers, commercial growers and amateur gardeners will also find this an enjoyable and interesting read as well as a useful reference book on the science behind the practice of horticulture.
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Validation of models through the comparison with data from commercial growers indicates these models are predicting biomass (oven-dried tonnes per hectare per year) within an acceptable range.
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Many of them have had their land taken away by the commercial growers, and they are not receiving the assistance they need.
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If the system is to exist, it should be open to all commercial growers or to none.
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I am not saying that commercial growers are the only people who should have a say.
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There are 89 commercial growers who are authorised packers in the scheme.
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