(n.) One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
Example Sentences:
(1) It affected peoples of the age between 4 to 70 years old, and their occupations were mainly outside workers such as agriculturist, worker, etc.
(2) Phenotype and gene frequencies of several polymorphic genetic markers were examined in a Sikh agriculturist caste group, Lobanas of Punjab, India.
(3) Children of poor socio-economic conditions as determined by occupational status (labourers) suffered significantly more often from diarrhoea as compared to children of higher socio-economic status (agriculturist and others).
(4) The Bambara of Mali, who are sedentary agriculturists, number about two million and are the most important ethnic group in the country.
(5) Compared to other relevant osteological samples, this group of hunting-gathering California Indians shows more degenerative changes than settled agriculturists (from Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico) but substantially less frequent involvement than in arctic hunters (Alaskan Eskimos).
(6) The group was apparently named by their booking agent; Anderson didn't learn until later that Jethro Tull was also the name of a noted English agriculturist.
(7) The incidence of dental caries was low by comparison to other prehistoric agriculturists except for two forms of root caries: cervical and cemental.
(8) Aquaculturists work primarily with "cold-blooded" ("lower") animals, whereas agriculturists work with "warm-blooded" ("higher") animals.
(9) As agriculturist, man recognized Earth, Heat and Water as essential to plant life and projected them as cosmic elements.
(10) It was only when we moved from being hunter-gatherers to agriculturists about 8,000 years ago that we could accumulate enough grapes for winemaking to begin.
Agronomist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hermitage, a solicitor, and Middleton, an agronomist with extensive experience in Africa , planned to make the 216 hectares (533 acres) of prime farmland their home and business.
(2) However while breeders and agronomists have been utilizing heterosis as a means of improving crop productivity, the biological basis of heterosis remains unknown.
(3) Quinoa growers have "westernized their diets because they have more profits and more income," a Bolivian agronomist involved in the quinoa trade told The Guardian.
(4) We think we can do that with nitrous oxide.” Aiming to combat crop loss as well as pollution Shannon Gomes is an agronomist in Decora, Iowa - corn country.
(5) As a corporate agribusiness we implemented 2 models: 1) We had a team of agronomists working with farmers on land preparation, pre-planting herbicides, planting and basal fertilizer application until harvest to ensure that chemicals were used in acceptable quantities.
(6) Photograph: SwamFarm This is the aim of SwarmFarm, a company that grew from the desire of Andrew and Jocie Bate, grain growers from central Queensland, and the agronomist and horticulturalist Neville Crook to use latest technology to enhance farming productivity.
(7) A one semester course (54 hours) was given to 22 students of the 7th semester of Agronomy and two Ecuatorian agronomists (with AID scholarships).
(8) Local agronomists and retailers have advised farmers for years to apply more nitrogen to drive up yields, and some corn farmers spend as much as $200 per acre on fertilizer.
(9) Therefore, the improvement obtained on the bean-grain quality will be measured through the interaction established among the different disciplines, such as geneticists, agronomists and scientists in food science and nutrition.
(10) Every kilogram of beef we consume, according to research by the agronomists David Pimental and Robert Goodland, requires around 100,000 litres of water.
(11) It sends farmers and agronomists daily email updates and allows them to retroactively explore field histories.
(12) But then again, there is not much about the past nine weeks that either the 63-year-old agronomist or his 27-year-old daughter could have predicted in a trip that saw a "real Devon country girl" turned into the public face of Greenpeace's Arctic 30 campaign.
(13) We only have five years to achieve clean water and safe toilets for all Read more Alipio Canahua, an agronomist working with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), says that the ancient agricultural system, which could date back 3,000 years, actually creates its own microclimate.
(14) The bulk of its grants for agriculture are given to organisations in the US and Europe,” said agronomist Henk Hobbelink, a co-founder of Grain.
(15) Hugh Mowat, M&S Agronomist, said: "This new technology is a win-win for our customers – not only will their strawberries taste better for longer, but we really hope it will help them to reduce their food waste as they no longer need to worry about eating their strawberries as soon as they buy them."
(16) Alain Rival, senior agronomist and research director at Cirad, says: “The first thing is to transform RSPO Principles and Criteria into law, then put enough resources to ensure enforcement of these laws on the ground.
(17) This year, the company launched the first commercial rendition of Adapt-N, with farmers and agronomists in 25 states using the tool to manage tens of thousands of acres of corn.
(18) No pets, no kids, no flights: how readers are reducing their carbon footprint Read more “The commodities most harmed by climate change will be those which cannot adapt, like the olive grove or the vineyard,” said Ana Iglesias, agronomist engineer at the Technical University of Madrid and one of the Spanish researchers who contributed to the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report.
(19) In conclusion, the program is an important contribution to the education of agronomists in a new conception of their role in regard to improvement of the nutritional status and quality of life of the rural population.
(20) We are just entering our second harvest using the biodigester, but in the first year our calculations show that the system reduced the levels of contamination by 81.3%”, says Marvin Mairena, Sebastián’s younger brother and the co-operative’s agronomist.