单词 | agro-industry |
释义 | agro-industryn. The farming or processing of agricultural produce on a large scale, using advanced technology; industrialized agriculture. Also and in earliest use: a particular form or branch of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farming industries agro-industry1907 agro-city1950 agribusiness1955 agrobusiness1958 agribiz1959 bioindustry1973 1907 Bengal Past & Present July 67 Textiles, which were an agro-industry, were intended for market and commodity production. 1932 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 27 Nov. ii. 1/6 The Inter-Continental Agro-Industry association has been founded. 1959 Rotarian Nov. 39/1 Here, as in so many other facets of agro-industry, groundwork was being laid for the resurgence of..1959's booming cattle industry. 1985 M. J. Broom Biol. & Culture Andara 31 Large tracts of land in Malaysia are given over to agroindustries in the form of rubber and oil palm plantations. 2002 M. Kurlansky Salt (2003) xi. 192 Agro-industry..abandoned the goal of producing the best food and strived to produce the most per acre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1907 |
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