(n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
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.
Horticulture
Definition:
(n.) The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
Example Sentences:
(1) For services to Horticulture and Land-Based Education.
(2) Pressure was growing, especially on thousands of suppliers of horticulture such as fruit and vegetables, because they often had direct relationships with the big food retailers, said Kendall.
(3) Today beside of the very important gibberellic acid (GA3) other gibberellins such as GA4 and GA7 are of significance for agriculture and horticulture.
(4) This new mechanisms can help to destroy fungi and parasites in dermatology, agriculture, horticulture and cultivation of decorative plants without side effects on the host.
(5) S. subglobosa should be considered in bamboo-associated and horticultural injuries.
(6) "If growers cannot get the required labour, evidence suggests that a replacement SAWS would help horticulture thrive in the long run, but it is ultimately for the government to decide if this sector is a priority."
(7) Ministers have been criticised for being slow to act, after the Horticultural Trade Association asked the then Labour government to ban ash imports in 2009 .
(8) As bioinsecticides in pest control in horticulture, agriculture and forestry.
(9) Initial tests indicate that even the more stable compounds are degraded rapidly in soil, so if the trials at present in progress reveal no toxicological or environmental hazards, within a few years synthetic pyrethroids should be available to control a wide range of domestic, veterinary, horticultural, agricultural, and forest pests at low rates of application.
(10) The Royal Horticultural Society put out guidelines for domestic gardeners to save water, such as mulching and improving the soil by digging in large amounts of compost or other organic matter.
(11) 2009 The Horticultural Trades Association warns the government that the fungus, now widespread in Denmark, could spread to the UK, and calls for an import ban.
(12) There’s a five-acre vegetable plot and heritage orchard to test your horticultural knowledge.
(13) Formerly director of Horticulture and Learning, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
(14) The trade and investment minister, Andrew Robb, highlighted the benefits set to flow for Australian farmers, saying the deal would eliminate prohibitive tariffs on beef, sugar, dairy, wheat, wine, horticulture and seafood.
(15) There are reasons why I should say yes.” The Name of the Rose A thorny foreign policy issue arose after Thatcher approved a request from the German horticultural industry to name a rose in her honour.
(16) Ben Raskin, head of horticulture at the Soil Association, said that the weather conditions have been particularly bad for organic farmers.
(17) TreeHouse has developed several vocational and leisure pathways to provide our older pupils with experience, including horticulture, performing arts, catering and hospitality, retail and enterprise, digital media, and sports and leisure.
(18) An epidemiological survey was conducted after the observation of 4 cases of acute brucellosis in an horticultural school.
(19) Murray-Darling water buybacks capped at 1,500 gigalitres as bill passes Senate Read more It is understood Joyce wants the South Australian Liberal senator Anne Ruston, who was sworn in as the assistant minister for agriculture and water resources, to focus on fisheries, forestry, horticulture and wine, rather than water.
(20) Virological investigations, using poliovirus type I, were carried out on the detection of enterovirus and their persistence in the chemical sludge from a tertiary treatment process, which could be suitable for agricultural and horticultural applications.--A comparison of six eluents showed that tryptose phosphate broth yielded best results allowing approximately 30% overall recovery with the method described.