modern agriculture

collocation in English

meaningsofmodernandagriculture

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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agriculture
noun[U]
uk
/ˈæɡ.rɪ.kʌl.tʃər/us
/ˈæɡ.rə.kʌl.tʃɚ/
farming:
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(Definition ofmodernandagriculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Alternatives to conventionalmodernagriculturefor meeting food needs in the next century.
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A niche market may develop over time, but it may not be enough to overcome the serious environmental problems associated withmodernagriculture.
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It is difficult to envisage a future withoutmodernagricultureproviding the necessary food security, sustainable energy and manufacturing feedstocks, and a clean, balanced atmosphere.
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On the other hand,modernagricultureis increasingly carried out by fewer and fewer people, who are more and more highly trained and technically competent.
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Can ecological farming substitute formodernagriculturein these breadbasket areas?
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Can agroecologists meet this challenge, or will it take further intensification ofmodernagriculture?
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But if earlymodernagriculturewas no bed of roses for women, was rural industry any better?
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Everything frommodernagriculture, fisheries, housing development, road networks and transport to numerous types of industry have a negative effect on the planet's biodiversity.
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However, inmodernagriculturethey are an unavoidable by-product of agricultural production methods.
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He has focused particularly on striking a balance between the demands ofmodernagricultureand the needs of the environment, including the welfare of wildlife.
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The whole ofmodernagricultureis becoming, as it should, in my opinion, a heavily-capitalised industry.
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They are also being destroyed by something else—bymodernagriculture.
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That second man is probably impoverished and unable to adapt the buildings to the use to whichmodernagriculturedemands that they should be put.
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A sentimental attachment to the past is not a recipe formodernagriculture.
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How is it possible to practisemodernagriculturewithout adequate water supplies, roads and electrification?
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Even so,modernagricultureis technically a rapidly advancing industry, using complicated machinery, complex chemicals and highly intensive and specialised methods of livestock production.
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Just as important as political factors is the impact of science onmodernagriculture.
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We must have those aids, and scientific andmodernagriculturehas done a great deal of good.
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I stress the importance of the basic utilities, such as electricity, water supply and transport, inmodernagriculture.
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It impliesmodernagriculture, town planning, road and railway planning, electrification and all the things that must follow in the wake of industrialisation.
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