agricultural commodity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofagriculturalandcommodity
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agricultural
adjective
uk/ˌæɡ.rɪˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us/ˌæɡ.rəˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
used for farming or relating ...
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commodity
noun[C]
uk/kəˈmɒd.ə.ti/us/kəˈmɑː.də.t̬i/
a substance or product that can be traded, bought, ...
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(Definition ofagriculturalandcommodityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For many writers of the 1960s and 1970s,agriculturalcommodityproduction was seen as an economic dead-end.
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The construction of these indices is based on the cointegration and spatial market arbitrage opportunities inherent inagriculturalcommoditymarkets.
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There are several ways to calibrate the total level of support and protection given to anagriculturalcommoditylike sugar.
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In the case of all agricultural commodities except feeder calves, the mechanism for delivery onagriculturalcommodityfutures contracts is physical exchange of the commodity.
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In terms of production value, wheat is the fifth most importantagriculturalcommodityin the state.
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In other words, we assume that the production process of the manufacturing generates an externality (pollution in our case) which enters into the production function of theagriculturalcommodity.
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These direct impacts on supply and demand are significant contributors toagriculturalcommodityprices and to the increases that we have seen.
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This applies to almost every major temperateagriculturalcommodity.
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Price fluctuations are a feature of many primaryagriculturalcommoditymarkets, including those for coffee, cocoa and cotton.
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Income support for those smaller farmers should be found from separate sources and under a separate aegis, rather than from theagriculturalcommoditysupport mechanism.
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So there could be in every other singleagriculturalcommodityin this country and in any other.
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Is not the price of anagriculturalcommodity, or any commodity, determined by supplies and demand at the margin?
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So it is that hops present the problem in a more acute form than perhaps any otheragriculturalcommodity.
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Everyagriculturalcommoditywas adversely affected by the drought.
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The name is new: it refers to any mechanism to keep market support for anagriculturalcommoditywithin budgetary limits.
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Now he tells us that he had in mind some otheragriculturalcommoditythan wheat.
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For many developing countries, coffee is the second most valuable commodity after oil and the most valuableagriculturalcommodityin world trade.
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I think we all accept, as my noble friend has already said, that milk remains the centralagriculturalcommodity.
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If my memory serves me right, wool is classified as an industrial product and not as anagriculturalcommodity.
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I suggest that the key to achieving that is to place an absolutely firm limit on total spending for every significantagriculturalcommoditywhich would have to be adhered to.
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