agricultural input

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meaningsofagriculturalandinput

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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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input
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.pʊt/
us
/ˈɪn.pʊt/
something such as energy, money, or information that is put into a system, organization, or machine so that it ...
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(Definition ofagriculturalandinputfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There has been a general trend of consolidation within theagriculturalinput, processing and retail markets.
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Consolidation amongagriculturalinputindustries and processors developed rapidly during the 1990s.
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We cannot ignore theagriculturalinput.
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Such technologies may, for example, include commercial fuels and improved agricultural inputs.
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Competition and consolidation in the global marketplace, low and unpredictable product prices, and increasingly expensive agricultural inputs are three examples of these challenges.
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Foreign exchange would be severely scarce and what little there was would not be used to import agricultural inputs.
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Early involvement of downstream partners, particularly private sector suppliers of seed and other agricultural inputs, helps to build the momentum for successful product adoption.
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An important proportion of this wage income is spent on agricultural inputs on the smallholding thereby allowing their survival as semi-proletarians.
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Married men consider even their closest male kin to be competitors for scarce resources such as land, agricultural inputs, labour and even nubile women.
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Although some of this gain is through intensification of agricultural inputs, a substantial portion reflects gains by genetics.
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This study treats information and knowledge as agricultural inputs and as the goods that extension services provide.
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The substitution of expensive agricultural inputs for a male migrant head's labour was ineffective.
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Apart from agricultural inputs, the owner provides the labourers with water and basic foodstuffs free of charge during the period of cultivation.
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Conservation tillage practices have demonstrated reduced impacts of soilborne pests and diseases, minimized agricultural inputs, and improved soil quality.
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Small ruminants are considered as assets that can be converted readily into cash to meet immediate household financial obligations such as paying school fees, buying fertilizers or other agricultural inputs.
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Instead, poverty and lack of capital with which to acquire agricultural inputs in order to improve production were most prevalent in the responses of rural communities.
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Access to timely, aordable credit and agricultural inputs such as fertilizers is poor and so fertilizer use is not widespread.
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This has made it difficult for farmers to adopt improved agricultural inputs and to employ labour, which are the means through which crop production can be improved.
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Agricultural inputs are non-allocable due to data constraints, so the model cannot directly identify the quantity of each input used in the production of any individual agricultural output.
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