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intensive agriculture — ➔ agriculture * * * intensive agriculture UK US noun [U] (also intensive farming) ENVIRONMENT ► farming that uses a lot of machinery, labour, chemicals, etc. in order to grow as many crops or keep as many animals as possible on the amount of land … Financial and business terms
intensive agriculture — in agricultural economics, system of cultivation using large amounts of labour and capital relative to land area. Large amounts of labour and capital are necessary to the application of fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides… … Universalium
intensive agriculture — investing of extra money and work to produce larger crops … English contemporary dictionary
Intensive farming — or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, fertilizers, labour, or labour saving technologies such as pesticides relative to land area. [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article 9042533… … Wikipedia
agriculture — ag‧ri‧cul‧ture [ˈægrɪˌkʌltʆə ǁ ər] noun [uncountable] FARMING the practice or science of farming: • Agriculture accounts for over 25% of net domestic production. agricultural adjective : • sales of agricultural machinery exˌtensive ˈagriculture … Financial and business terms
intensive farming — ➔ farming * * * intensive farming UK US noun [U] ENVIRONMENT ► INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE(Cf. ↑intensive agriculture) … Financial and business terms
Agriculture in Argentina — Agriculture is one of the bases of Argentina s economy. Argentine agriculture is relatively capital intensive, today providing about 7% of all employment [http://www.mecon.gov.ar/ Ministerio de Economía y Producción República Argentina] ] and,… … Wikipedia
Agriculture — General … Wikipedia
agriculture, origins of — Introduction the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms wet rice production… … Universalium
Agriculture in Bangladesh — Bangladesh has a primarily agrarian economy. Agriculture is the single largest producing sector of the economy since it comprises about 30% of the country s GDP and employs around 60% of the total labour force. The performance of this sector has… … Wikipedia
