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Definition of agriculture
: the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products cleared the land to use it for agriculture
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Examples of agriculture in a Sentence
They cleared the land to use it for agriculture.
the forest was cut down, and the land given over to agriculture
Recent Examples of agriculture from the Web
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Similarly, the fertilizing effect of CO2 will help agriculture in places like Montana and the Dakotas, but most of the states along the Mississippi River will be slammed.
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The university’s reputation as a leader in agriculture studies attracted Zhang to the school.
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Logging, agriculture, mining and wildfires contributed to the drop, as reported in January in Science Advances.
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There are shortages in agriculture, manufacturing, information technology and health care.
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Admiral Lanba visit comes after a Parliamentary delegation led by minister of state for agriculture and parliamentary affairs SS Ahluwalia went all over the Jewish nation in search of state of the art agricultural technologies.
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Solar State agriculture officials and Connecticut's environmental watchdog agency have been warning that major solar power and other energy developments have been gobbling up prime farm and forest lands.
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Local agriculture and tropical fruits are the stars of the show at the Redland Summer Fruit Fest on Saturday and Sunday at the Redland Fruit and Spice Park, 24801 SW 187th Ave.,
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Most in India rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, and climate change is likely to hurt their crops by increasing the temperature and also by making rainfall more erratic.
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: the science or occupation of farming
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: the cultivating of the soil, producing of crops, and raising of livestock
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