department of agriculture
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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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agriculture
noun[U]
uk/ˈæɡ.rɪ.kʌl.tʃər/us/ˈæɡ.rə.kʌl.tʃɚ/
farming:
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The majority of the respondents felt the need to be supported by government and local institutions, particularly by the officials of thedepartmentofagriculture.
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It was not given to one limiteddepartmentofagriculture.
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I want him to have any power which will enable him to assist everydepartmentofagriculture.
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Would he get title localdepartmentofagricultureto move a little more quickly?
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There are already in many districts either individuals or institutions or colleges which have, in everydepartmentofagriculture, experimented for many years past in big farming operations.
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Primarily, these ships had been run by the national bureau for oceanography, department of oil,departmentofagricultureand by universities.
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Adepartmentofagricultureincluded a farm with barn and living house, in addition to separate exhibition buildings for forestry and agriculture.
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Shaw worked as a civil servant in the provincialdepartmentofagriculturefrom 1934 to 1954, rising to the position of deputy minister.
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We can get them back, along those departments of agriculture which mechanisation cannot touch.
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But the colleges of agriculture and the university departments of agriculture are invariably under the same roof or the same groupings of roofs.
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I shall deal first with the university departments of agriculture.
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In consequence, there were recommendations that the number of departments of agriculture should be reduced.
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He is credited with the statement that it is possible to absorb in four departments of agriculture no fewer than 552,000 persons.
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In fact, as he knows, the tendency has been for the recruitment to the other farm institutes, and even the university departments of agriculture, to decline.
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Departments of agriculture, fisheries, forestry, commerce, and industry are optional, depending on local needs.
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Specialist university-level landscape planning and garden design courses were established in the twentieth century, generally attached to departments of agriculture, horticulture, or architecture.
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