(a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
(2) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(3) The agriculture ministry raised the risk level of the virus spreading from moderate to high on Tuesday across the country, at a crucial time for the industry.
(4) UK agriculture, it argues, “is much more dependent on EU markets than the EU is on the UK”.
(5) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(6) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
(7) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(8) This population-based case-control study of 130 Calgary residents with neurologist-confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 260 randomly selected age- and sex-matched community controls attempted to determine whether agricultural work or the occupational use of pesticide chemicals is associated with an increased risk for PD.
(9) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(10) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(11) The US farm bill is a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation that controls the federal government's spending on farm subsidies, food for the domestic poor, agriculture conservation programmes, and overseas food aid , among other things.
(12) About 53% of the continent’s total land mass is used for agriculture.
(13) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(14) Barriers protecting industry, manufacturing and agriculture were demolished.
(15) The Tasmanian government will extend its ban on fracking for five years to protect the state’s agricultural industry.
(16) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
(17) In 2008-09, DfID's bilateral spending on agricultural programmes in sub-Saharan African amounted to just £20m, a fraction of its £5.7bn budget.
(18) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(19) Adjusted relative risk estimates suggest that risks were elevated for children whose fathers were engaged in agricultural occupations during the period from 6 months prior to conception of the subject up to the time of diagnosis for the patients or interview for the controls (relative risk (RR) = 8.8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.8-42.7) and for children whose fathers had occupational exposure to herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers (RR = 6.1, 95% CI 1.7-21.9, p = 0.002).
(20) France's agriculture minister, Stéphane Le Foll, said the rules were simple: "There has to be a correspondence between the container and what's in it.
Uncultivated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 16S rRNA sequences retrieved as cDNA (16S rcDNA) from the Octopus Spring cyanobacterial mat has permitted phylogenetic characterization of some uncultivated community members, expanding our knowledge or diversity within this microbial community.
(2) • Africa has 60% of the world's total amount of uncultivated arable land.
(3) The socio-economic structure of the village is mainly agropastoral, though, in the last decades, 50% of the ground has been left uncultivated due to emigration and commuting.
(4) Payments to farmers for leaving land uncultivated as a habitat for wildlife are to be brought back under proposals to be announced today by the environment secretary, Hilary Benn.
(5) Although five distinct cell types could be identified with classical stains in the uncultivated glands, the peroxidase-labeled antibody technique (using antibodies against STH, LTH, FSH, LH and TSH) showed that not all of the immune-specific cell types were being identified with the classical stains.
(6) The reasons were as follows: uncultivated green fields, forest herbage and needle-leaves are sufficient sources of game contamination; there exist evident differences between continuous ingestion of contaminated or mixed feed with respect to the cesium contamination of tissues.
(7) Habitats were in abandoned rice fields, uncultivated grazing areas for livestock, roadside ditches and, in one case, an actively worked rice field.
(8) The "set aside" scheme was in effect abandoned two years ago when the European commission announced that the percentage of land that had to be left uncultivated would be zero.
(9) The concentration of 239 + 240Pu in the uncultivated soil was 20 Bq kg-1, which was approximately eight times as high as that in the control districts.
(10) V3 envelope sequences were determined from amplified human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) sequences of uncultivated leukocytes obtained sequentially from four infected adults over the course of infection.
(11) The purpose of this experiment was to isolate the microscopically detectable but uncultivable acid-fast bacilli, using experimental infection system induced in nude mouse.
(12) A wide variety of uncultivated plant foods was eaten in the traditional diet: roots, starchy tubers, seeds, fruits and nuts.
(13) In this study, the distribution of 239 + 240Pu concentration in the uncultivated soil and the transfer factor of 239 + 240Pu to agricultural products in Nishiyama district were examined.
(14) The following tissues from the fetus at risk were investigated by electron microscopy and were found to be free of fingerprint profiles and curvilinear bodies, typical for JNCL: uncultivated amniotic fluid cells, lymphocytes isolated from fetal blood, and fetal skin biopsy specimens.
(15) Mangrove plants on the mudflats perished – the acreage was halved between the 1950s and 2009 – while nearby farming land became uncultivable.
(16) Prenatal diagnosis in those monitored with amniocentesis was carried out with DNA analysis of uncultivated amniocytes (19) or cultivated cells (38).
(17) When I visited last week, a deathly silence reigned, the only noise the chirruping of frogs in uncultivated rice paddies on the edge of town, and the bleeping of my dosimeter.
(18) Direct analysis holds promise for detecting markers of infection due to an uncultivable agent or in clinical specimens that presently require cultures and prolonged incubation to yield an etiologic agent.
(19) The recent awareness and interest in the pharmacology and toxicology of uncultivated mushrooms in North America and Great Britain should encourage continued active research.
(20) In addition to 16S rRNA genes from the marine Synechococcus cluster and the previously identified but uncultivated microbial group, the SAR11 cluster [S. J. Giovannoni, T. B. Britschgi, C. L. Moyer, and K. G. Field.