| 单词 | farming |
| 释义 | farming (fɑːʳmɪŋ ) uncountable noun B1 Farming is the activity of growing crops or keeping animals on a farm. Dairy farming in this country is fast becoming unviable. Synonyms: agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, land management Collocations: chicken farming A lot of the things are similar to chicken farming. Times, Sunday Times Also, have you ever seen organic chicken farming? Times, Sunday Times They took up chicken farming, not always with success. Times, Sunday Times He has questioned supermarket officials to ensure their salmon and chicken farming standards exceed even the best practice normally expected of organic producers. Times, Sunday Times It has no problem with chicken farming. Times, Sunday Times Now they are needed to play the part of villains, the archenemies of the ultramodern farming industry, and must pay the price. Times, Sunday Times Impala went to great lengths to guard itself from what happened to the commercial farming industry. Times, Sunday Times We are exploring what this diet might look like along with how to create it, while also supporting the farming industry. Times, Sunday Times Demand from the farming industry has been strong in recent years and growth has been supplemented by the acquisition of several smaller competitors. Times, Sunday Times Our farming industry remains slightly backward in its approach to the business of food production. Times, Sunday Times It appears to have been driven out as farming land extended and trees were cleared. Times, Sunday Times (2008) The wealthiest landowners are already benefiting from the inheritance tax exemption on farming land, and most don't need the pocket money. Times, Sunday Times (2016) These sites include woodland, meadows and farming land. Times, Sunday Times (2008) They want labels to be placed on all meat and dairy products showing the farming method, such as 'intensive indoor' or 'zero grazed'. Times, Sunday Times Politicians and others should encourage the growing of good-quality food, whatever the farming method. Times, Sunday Times The official reasons given for songbird decline are habitat loss and modern farming methods. Times, Sunday Times The landowners are also angry that, for the sake of one species, wildlife experts are demanding a change to traditional farming methods. Times, Sunday Times The causes of soil loss include chemical-heavy farming methods, deforestation - which increases erosion - and global warming. Times, Sunday Times The family has a farming operation. Times, Sunday Times Freshwater sawfish have been caught in its shallow waters to feed the crocodiles in a farming operation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The village consists of single family residences, some of which are part of a farming operation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farm and in subsequent years converted it into a dairy farming operation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The suburb was farmland until development began in the 1990s; a large farming operation still takes place in the land between sections today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, throughout its history various methods have been developed or imported that enabled greater farming production and efficiency. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These studies show the inherent variation in farming production, which leads to varying levels of impact on the environment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farmers' markets, public events where local small-scale farmers gather and sell their produce, are a good source for obtaining local food and knowledge about local farming productions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Predominantly a farming region, the principal exports include kalamata olives, olive oil and figs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This transformed the village from a hive of steam train activity to a quiet farming region, mainly supplying the surrounding villages with foods and goods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the past, it was the commercial center for a fertile grain and general farming region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It serves as a small trading centre in a tobacco and mix farming region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The area developed as a grain farming region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But land redistribution has already broken the back of the once-mighty farming sector and raised the threat of national food insecurity. Christianity Today The employment report, the most important gauge of the health of the economy, includes details of labour outside the seasonal farming sector. Times, Sunday Times The company said it remains confident about the prospects of the farming sector in the near term, but caution remained. Times, Sunday Times We also agree that we cannot hope to manage our natural environment in the absence of a profitable farming sector. Times, Sunday Times Private investors were people who made their money outside the farming sector and were not planning to live at or work on the farm, the company said. Times, Sunday Times It's the only way they have to rebalance the unfair elements in the system, such as textile tariffs and farming subsidies. Times, Sunday Times Add in sums spent on public sector pensions, farming subsidies and capital investment, and it will be responsible for collecting 48 per cent of its spending. Times, Sunday Times Farming subsidies were about to be overhauled, cutting his income still further. Times, Sunday Times The cuts will hit farming subsidies and health and housing programmes. Times, Sunday Times Farming subsidies were a fraught topic before the vote. Times, Sunday Times A biodegradable material produced from a sustainable farming system, corks are to be encouraged. Times, Sunday Times Locals fear that splitting the property could jeopardise a historic farming system. Times, Sunday Times And as part of a mixed farming system, clover-rich pastures provide a non-chemical way of building up fertility on crop land. Times, Sunday Times In earlier years, livestock were often considered part of the forest farming system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the major estates transformed, a new economic grouping, the gentry, became evident, many of them benefiting from the opportunities of the farming system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 More than 1,000 sheep roam across 7,000 acres, with each family group instinctively 'hefted' to their part of the hill without the need of fences, an ancient farming technique. Times, Sunday Times While growing, a farming technique called cepukaka was used to protect the corn from being blown over when it got to a certain height. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Scientists blame a 'triple whammy' of polluting fish farming techniques, depleted fish stocks, which used to control the jelly fish population, and warmer seas. Times, Sunday Times Shelving gently towards the sea, some fields bear signs of medieval ridge and furrow, although modern farming techniques have robbed the land of biodiversity. Times, Sunday Times Trainees will learn modern-day farming techniques including managing crop growth through the use of drones and smartphone apps. The Sun The small farming town has a population of about 2,600. Times, Sunday Times As the marines secured th eir first objective, a jumble of buildings at the centre of the farming town, thousands of soldiers moved in on foot. Times, Sunday Times Madras, a farming town nearby with a population of about 6,000, has been touted as perhaps the best viewing spot in the entire country. Times, Sunday Times By 1839, when the population was 1,074, it was described as a beautiful farming town, with a pleasant and flourishing village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Settled in 1868, it was first a farming town with a small population. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This oncesleepy farming village rings with the sound of scraping shovels. Times, Sunday Times The couple were part of a close group of friends for years, before a ball in a farming village got them drinking, and dancing. Times, Sunday Times The municipality has become almost wholly a residential community, a great shift from its former function as a pure farming village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has been settled since the early 19th century, first as a farming village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Originally a farming village, it has grown into an industrial center. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Billions has been spent trying to produce laboratory-grown burgers, steaks and bacon that satisfy carnivores while limiting the environmental damage of industrial farming. Times,Sunday Times Appalled at reports that we'll fish the sea dry, and at industrial farming, she has cut out fish and flesh completely. Times, Sunday Times Pesticides in industrial farming are destroying biodiversity. Times, Sunday Times The shrinkwrapped ones in supermarkets are as bad as it gets in terms of industrial farming. Times, Sunday Times Subsidized, industrial farming has decimated family farms and rural communities. Globe and Mail The best physical records of our past tend to survive only in areas where large-scale farming has not been possible. Times, Sunday Times The timetable seems to be much too short for such a large-scale farming revolution and the objectives seem much too ambitious. Times, Sunday Times However, large-scale farming companies only account for less than 10% of the total farming capacity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Factories were built that could produce goods at a larger scale than traditional handicraft, for example large-scale farming to produce wool of high quality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The plan would reclaim swampland and control the river's annual floods, making large-scale farming possible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A panel of experts will debate the effects of livestock farming on global biodiversity and climate change. The Sun In areas where livestock farming has declined, hedges are often left untended and gradually disappear. The Sun Livestock farming has many other adverse effects on the global environment, being the largest source of water pollution and degradation of coastal areas and coral reefs. Times, Sunday Times They have built palm-thatched huts next to empty cattle pens on the reclaimed farms, replacing the industrial livestock farming with fields of cassava and beans. Times, Sunday Times Because livestock farming involves the destruction of rainforest, nitrous oxide emissions and land and water degradation, he argues, we would be much better off without meat. Times, Sunday Times Why, though, is modern farming leaving wildlife so short of natural food? Times, Sunday Times (2012) The official reasons given for songbird decline are habitat loss and modern farming methods. Times, Sunday Times (2011) For modern farming a substantial improvement of the drainage system is considered essential. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations (1989) They used to feed largely on spilt grain, but modern farming does not leave much of that. Times, Sunday Times (2012) For a generation, opponents of genetically modified crops have claimed that they pose a threat to human health, to the environment and to the economics of small-scale farming. Times, Sunday Times The term succession planting usually appears in literature for home gardening and small-scale farming, although the techniques apply to any scale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The inhabitants now live by fishing and small-scale farming. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It features large, mature trees and many outstanding gardens, both flower and vegetable (some large enough to be bordering on small-scale farming operations). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The family supported itself by fishing, shipping and small-scale farming. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Villagers learn sustainable farming on a farm and grow produce that is sold back to the lodge. Times, Sunday Times (2008) She is undoubtedly right that more research into sustainable farming is needed. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) There, she became involved with organizations opposed to nuclear energy and in favour of sustainable farming. The Times Literary Supplement (2011) Translations: Chinese: 耕作 Japanese: 農業 |
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