| 单词 | agricultural |
| 释义 | agricultural (ægrɪkʌltʃərəl ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture. ...agricultural land. ...corn and other agricultural products. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] An agricultural place or society is one in which agriculture is important or highly developed. ...traditional agricultural societies. Synonyms: farming, country, rural, rustic Collocations: agricultural area After one orbit he returned to earth, landing by parachute in an agricultural area. Times, Sunday Times They cover a vast agricultural area, more than 50 square miles, larger than some small countries. Times, Sunday Times The original agricultural area was around 100 acres; all but one-tenth of that has already been developed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farms with an area exceeding 15 ha accounted for only 9% of the total number of farms but cover 45% of total agricultural area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Phoenix served as an agricultural area that depended on large-scale irrigation projects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also ridiculed his contention that agricultural biotechnology was contributing to major challenges such as global warming. Times, Sunday Times Finally, they argue that for agricultural biotechnology, there are a range of conditions that make current practices of assessing the quality of biosafety science unethical. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The report claimed that agricultural biotechnology has real potential as a new tool in the war on hunger. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was an important day in the old agricultural calendar, when signs of spring were searched for with keen interest, if not some apprehension. Times, Sunday Times He has the customary agricultural calendar, and a few medals hanging from the cardboard ceiling. Times, Sunday Times In some cases they reflected the pattern of the agricultural calendar, in others the needs of industry. Times, Sunday Times Here, well described, are the seasonal tasks of the agricultural calendar. Times, Sunday Times For some this may have been tied to the agricultural calendar, and individuals may have moved in a circuit as different foodstuffs and work became available. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Commodities carried by the railroad are coal, wood products, stone, grain, agricultural chemical, and processed food. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The joint venture will make chemicals used to produce plastic bottles, compact discs, computers and agricultural chemicals. Times, Sunday Times For a few weeks it was as though we were living in a landscape (and soundscape) healed of all the years of agricultural chemicals. Times, Sunday Times Poisoning of the water supply from industrial and agricultural chemicals may have also contributed to population decline. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Major manufacturing sectors include food processing, heavy machinery, and agricultural chemicals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rising agricultural commodity prices and the rapidly growing market for biofuels are encouraging farmers to buy again. Times, Sunday Times You do not have to be a hedge fund manager to play the agricultural commodity markets, though. Times, Sunday Times However, that attracted an increase in supply that, coupled with weak agricultural commodity prices, has led to a sharp fall in prices. Times, Sunday Times The fact that agricultural commodity prices are still rising at rates that even the biggest bulls (me included) could never have forecast doesn't exactly help either. Times, Sunday Times Because these countries are poorer, food has a larger share of the inflation basket and rising agricultural commodity prices feed through into headline inflation more quickly. Times, Sunday Times The agricultural community was just starting out and people were in danger of losing their livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times I've got students, vets, midwives and a lot of the agricultural community. The Sun Supporting a huntergatherer lifestyle takes 10 to 100 times the land per person that a settled agricultural community needs. Times, Sunday Times The agricultural community, landowners, recreational groups and government need to move in unison on this, not (as so often in the past) engage in petty, time-wasting battles. Times, Sunday Times Incorporated in 1812, the town was a residential and agricultural community, growing mixed hay grains and raising cattle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a joint statement they said that fish should be treated as worthy of conservation rather than being regarded as an agricultural crop. Times, Sunday Times She was also responsible for the legalization of hemp as an agricultural crop in 1999. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Teff heads do not shatter, making the plant easier to manage as an agricultural crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They destroy the economy, life and property of the people including agricultural crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since then, rice became the primary agricultural crop in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The task force, which included farmers, a feedlot operator and an agricultural economics professor, held hearings across the province last winter and spring. canada.com The following summer he got a job writing software programs for the agricultural economics department. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, as he later noted there was nothing in the budget to provide for his area of interest, agricultural economics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the graduate level, many agricultural economics programs focus on a wide variety of applied micro- and macro-economic topics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From its initial interest in agribusiness, agricultural economics, and natural resource economics, the faculty has broadened to include economics, finance, accounting and business management. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But how was this to be done without returning to an agricultural economy? Times, Sunday Times Chaos in the agricultural economy, and disruptions in local supply chains have sent wheat prices up by 11 per cent. Times, Sunday Times Bees are worth about 200 million to the agricultural economy and are important for pollinating crops. Times, Sunday Times The agricultural economy begins to collapse. Times, Sunday Times There was a thriving agricultural economy at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Until 1977, the lower castle was operated as an agricultural enterprise by a leaseholder. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Before the conflict, a socially owned agricultural enterprise dominated the production but was destroyed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The building boasts 365 windows, one for each day of the year and was constructed as part of a plan to convert the farm into a grand agricultural enterprise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 First are those that produce feeder cattle to be raised by other agricultural enterprises, such as feedlots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From 1983 and on he was employed in agricultural enterprises. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Record prices for crops such as corn, soya beans and wheat have helped to lift the performance of the world's largest maker of agricultural equipment. Times, Sunday Times Companies producing capital goods, such as industrial machinery, engines and agricultural equipment, said that business was brisk. Times, Sunday Times Agricultural equipment such as tractors, four-row planters and cultivators, a dry-bean thresher, bags, screen sieves and a 500l fuel trailer with electric motor will also be auctioned. ST The troubles started a year after the cinema opened in 2005, in the building where agricultural equipment was once manufactured. Times, Sunday Times The engineering and metalworking industries manufacture production equipment for various industries, forklift trucks, construction and agricultural equipment, and machinery for municipal services. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He didn't get everything he wanted, but in 2004 he brokered a deal that won international support for the complete elimination of agricultural export subsidies. Times, Sunday Times Current commitments to eliminate agricultural export subsidies would be lost. Times, Sunday Times He used the money to start an agricultural export company. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These products accounted for over 80% of agricultural export revenue in the first quarter of 2010. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Until the 19th century, it was the largest agricultural export with up to a quarter of the agricultural land given over to orchards. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has the world's largest freshwater supplies and a huge amount of rich farmland, which has enabled it to become a major agricultural exporter. Times, Sunday Times However, several predominantly agricultural exporters and oil importers saw deterioration in their terms of trade and for a number of countries, these shocks compromised their relatively stable economies. Times, Sunday Times Both countries are agricultural exporters, and advocate for the reduction and reform of farm subsidies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Already, there has been considerable interest by regional manufacturers, agricultural exporters and other traders in the start-up of the service. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today there remains a slightly visible main runway in an agricultural field. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An outline of the runway remains in an agricultural field in aerial photos today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The aircraft was completely destroyed after it crashed into an agricultural field, carving a crater up to 10 m deep. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Outlines of walls and hangar foundations can be seen in aerial images, the airfield now being an agricultural field. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The garden was established in 2000 on an agricultural field, and organized into four asymmetric sections. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The charges on the sinister (armsbearers left, viewers right) side represent the villages coalmining history (the coalminers lamp) and agricultural heritage (the ears of grain). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In recent years the fair has moved away from such agricultural heritage by transitioning from livestock competitions for area growers and ranchers to hired petting zoos. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The community retains its agricultural heritage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But an increasing proportion even of agricultural imports are tariff-free. Times, Sunday Times For the same reason, they oppose unilateral elimination of tariffs on agricultural imports. Times, Sunday Times Agricultural imports are habitually reviewed for safety and health, especially during crises such as bird flu outbreaks in other parts of the world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The ratio of agricultural imports to other imports was expected to rise in the late 1980s and 1990s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 1970s agricultural imports accounted for about 30 percent of total imports. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Let us give today's agricultural industry the encouragement and means to preserve our dwindling food supplies. Times, Sunday Times The provider of naturally derived products to the agricultural industry jumped 5½p to 46½p in response. Times, Sunday Times Smuggling remains a big source of profit for some and efforts to revive the agricultural industry are hampered by a shortage of seeds and fertiliser. Times, Sunday Times The agricultural industry has also routinely used antibiotics as a preventive measure. Times, Sunday Times He speaks about the importance of having multiple revenue sources in the agricultural industry today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We have done so by means of monoculture, pesticides, agricultural intensification, urbanisation and climate change. Times, Sunday Times The agricultural intensification of the postwar era caused well-catalogued declines in wildlife. Times, Sunday Times Some districts remain tree-less, as the loss of the elms coincided with a period of agricultural intensification and there were few incentives for planting replacement trees. Times, Sunday Times Mostly, it's about agricultural intensification. Times, Sunday Times The grey partridge declined by 85 per cent between 1970 and 2004, largely because of agricultural intensification. Times, Sunday Times Many new arrivals have entered unfashionable sectors of employment, such as agricultural labour and social care, which have faced recruitment problems for decades. Times, Sunday Times But with so much of the agricultural labour force fighting, pressure on food supplies worldwide increased throughout the war. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The means of subsistence for this house were agricultural labour and the manufacture of chocolate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Of 1,450,000 prisoners, 750,000 were employed in agricultural labour and 330,000 in industry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, poverty forced him to get into agricultural labour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has worked as an agricultural labourer for the last 35 years, usually cutting cauliflowers and broccoli. The Sun In the war he worked as an agricultural labourer. Times, Sunday Times Constables were paid 19 shillings a week, which was nearly twice the typical wage of an agricultural labourer in the county at that time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He did nt go to school and from an early age was working as an agricultural labourer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other occupational percentages are: agricultural labourer 12.06%, wage labourer 4.95%, commerce 8.22%, service 13.04%, fishing 2.02%, industry 4.57%, forestry 3.2% and others 10%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The proper place to build homes is at lower densities on agricultural land. Times, Sunday Times (2010) There is also the complete absence of inheritance tax on agricultural land and on certain business assets. Times, Sunday Times (2017) The need to protect agricultural land was neatly allied with the radical planning fervour of the 1930s and 1940s to check the spread of urban areas. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations (1989) While returns on other investments have slowed during the economic downturn, agricultural land has increased in value by 202% over the past decade. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The annual loss of agricultural land currently averages 50 000 ha. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations (1989) As a result, copses and covers stud the agricultural landscape, and these places are full of wildlife. Times, Sunday Times At this time of year an agricultural landscape reveals its workings. Times,Sunday Times At this time of the year we get used to the golden plover (pictured, winter plumage) as a species en masse, in stolidly bunched flocks in agricultural landscape. Times, Sunday Times In the developing world, where fertilisers are often beyond the reach of poor farmers, it could transform the agricultural landscape. Times, Sunday Times There have been dramatic changes to farming and the agricultural landscape, particularly in the last century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Until now, the company's fast-growing automotive division has focused mainly on agricultural machinery and utility vehicles. Times, Sunday Times Theft of agricultural machinery, fuel, fertiliser and tools were all common. Times, Sunday Times Since he owned the local agricultural machinery dealership, he wanted to get the biggest bits of kit that he could onto the land. Times, Sunday Times It involved draining fields, making roads and ponds and driving huge agricultural machinery. Times, Sunday Times The sellers were suppliers of agricultural machinery. Times, Sunday Times That will hit nations financially with the loss of agricultural output. The Sun The export ban was introduced to stabilise prices after a drought last year that severely affected agricultural output. Times, Sunday Times Agricultural output collapsed - hence the famine. Times, Sunday Times We need to use all available technologies, including genetic modification, to help to bolster the next revolution in agricultural output using the same amount of land and less water. Times, Sunday Times Vast tracts of farmland now lie fallow and agricultural output has slumped. Times, Sunday Times Both birds died after eating bait laced with carbofuran, an illegal agricultural pesticide that acts within seconds. Times, Sunday Times They found that agricultural pesticides and other man-made chemicals released into water can affect the animals' immune systems — leaving them vulnerable to attack by fungi, bacteria and other infections. Times, Sunday Times The increasing use of agricultural pesticides was causing a major environmental crisis. The Times Literary Supplement Adjuvants for use with agricultural pesticides have been categorised as extenders, wetting agents, sticking agents and fogging agents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It can suffer, directly and indirectly, from the use of agricultural pesticides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wasps are notorious predators of agricultural pests, including whiteflies, aphids, moths, beetles and plant lice. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The main agricultural pests, apart from birds, are the pickers themselves. Times, Sunday Times Highly effective in the control of disease-carrying insects and agricultural pests, the pyrethroids were, and continue to be, of substantial international economic significance. Times, Sunday Times This so-called sterile insect technique has already yielded success in agricultural pests like fruit flies, and in other bugs that ferry illness from person to person such as tsetse flies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only when we are armed with this information can we accurately predict the spread of invasive agricultural pests or disease vectors, like the bloodsucking mosquitoes that even entomologists despise. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He added that this had distracted attention from more urgent threats to reefs such as agricultural pollution, overfishing and tourism. Times, Sunday Times Industrial waste and sewage, agricultural pollution and shipping discharges were to blame for the river's declining health, the experts said. Times, Sunday Times It has proposed clean air zones for larger cities, incremental increases in investment in low-emission vehicles and cuts to industrial and agricultural pollution. Times, Sunday Times Agricultural pollution has been in the headlines. Times, Sunday Times Surface water quality has been significantly affected by channel alteration, dams, irrigation diversions, irrigation return flow, and agricultural pollution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Grapes, which are processed to sun-dried raisins, are the main agricultural product. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rise in food inflation and the growing need of agricultural product in the country has initiated to the need of a second green revolution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, as of 2009, there was still a significant amount of policy-driven distortion in global agricultural product prices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most important crops are cotton and maize; also beans are an important agricultural product. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Livestock accounts for 40% of regional agricultural product. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This is due to the rising population outstripping agricultural production after the industrial revolution, and to economic policies. The Sun (2015) In most cases the most prominent programmes have been to support agricultural production in the interests of national self-sufficiency or of export requirements. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations (1989) Today, nanotechnology represents a promising approach to improve agricultural production and remediate polluted sites. 2013, 'Advances of nanotechnology in agro-environmental studies', Italian Journal of Agronomy The reputation for fine food of this mainly agricultural region comes from the quality of its produce. Times, Sunday Times The spa sits beside a snow-melt swollen river, in a valley 1,600m (5,250ft) up in the mountains of this remote agricultural region. Times, Sunday Times It lies in an agricultural region with significant production of olive oil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This important agricultural region also contains large deposits of methane gas and salt. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also benefited from its location in the heart of a rich agricultural region (trade of grain and gude, woad, a high-value blue colouring pigment). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other key agricultural resources include coffee, lychees and shrimp. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The main reason for its foundation was the operation of agricultural resources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The government proposed to employ former inmates in an initiative to develop the island's fisheries, timber, and agricultural resources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since the 1940s, many laboratories around the world have looked at acetylation of many different types of woods and agricultural resources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Large agricultural resources have generated a lively system of small and medium-sized industrial products grown and exported to international markets. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Heavy rainfalls generate a lot of agricultural runoff, draining fertilizers from farms into the water supply. Smithsonian Mag Today they face increasing threats of pollution from agricultural runoff, not to mention the legacy of chemical waste plants. Smithsonian Mag There are still risks from agricultural runoff and sewage discharge, especially after rain. Times, Sunday Times Due to climate change and human impacts like agricultural runoff, these toxic blooms are becoming more common. Smithsonian Mag In addition, nonpoint source pollution and agricultural runoff may be negatively affecting this species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An even surer point of entry would be through agricultural science. Times, Sunday Times Trained in agricultural chemistry, he began to lecture on agricultural science. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Students have to take agricultural science after completing their primary education. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cattle can graze on the grass to an extent, as agricultural science research in the 1970s defined. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of the clones, who had become an expert in agricultural science, returned late and, upon viewing the mayhem, disappeared. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It holds 50 to 60 companies from the agricultural sector, ranging from the production of food to distribution and consumption. Times, Sunday Times With the industrialisation of the agricultural sector people began moving out. Times, Sunday Times He has been actively and strategically involved in the agricultural sector for many years. ST Unprecedented assistance was rendered to the agricultural sector. Mail and Guardian He would co-operate with the agricultural sector to see if people furloughed from their main occupations could become stand-in harvesters. Times,Sunday Times In one example of an agricultural society, a farmer tills part of the very limited land in Nepal flat enough to sustain agriculture. Sociology (1995) Unlike an agricultural society, which can be rather precisely defined, civilization is a more subjective construct. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995) The rise of new classes of merchants and artisans led to new contradictions in agricultural society. Sociology (1995) Agricultural subsidies do already recognise such ideas but 'stewardship' grants are small and the conditions can be onerous. Times, Sunday Times Maintain proof of agricultural subsidies and woodland grants claimed. Times, Sunday Times In the straitened times we face, agricultural subsidies will present a tempting pot to pinch from. Times, Sunday Times The government has promised to replace agricultural subsidies. Times, Sunday Times Doing so will be politically sensitive because it will require the phasing out of agricultural subsidies. Times, Sunday Times The off-roader has been introduced in a bid to prevent farm burglaries and help nab thieves who target machinery and agricultural tools. The Sun They also made furniture and various agricultural tools. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An increase in productivity resulted from irrigation projects, intensive agriculture and utilisation of modern agricultural tools increasing in use throughout the 19th century. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His book listed and described an enormous catalogue of agricultural tools and implements used in the past and in his own day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The collection includes clothes, agricultural tools, and paintings depicting daily life in the village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet it seemed that the planners' feathers were ruffled, as they stated that the proposed plans were a 'departure from agricultural use'. Times, Sunday Times Each course takes up at least 120 acres, most of which was in agricultural use until recent decades. Times, Sunday Times He has won permission from planners to change the plot from agricultural use to a garden. The Sun Much of the land acquired with development loans provided by the bank has, apparently, reverted to agricultural use. Times, Sunday Times The farm reverted to agricultural use, and for 50 years was effectively abandoned. Times, Sunday Times Biomass material includes plants such as elephant grass and agricultural waste, although wood creates the most energy. Times, Sunday Times Flooding has caused sewage pipes to overflow, and agricultural waste to cascade into the river system. Times, Sunday Times It also combines well with carbon, which makes it a significant component of organic substances ranging from oil to agricultural waste. Times, Sunday Times He also contributed to the research of agricultural waste production and management, specifically cereal straw. Times, Sunday Times The project will turn agricultural waste into fuel for cars and jets or to make chemical detergents. Times, Sunday Times With the improvements in agriculture and the spike of agricultural yield, agriculture-based industries are built in large numbers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It had been the original intention of the enclosures to divide and rail-in land to improve agricultural yield. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The land must be large enough to support substantial agricultural yield, and be surrounded by land with a similar nature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Agricultural yield per acre has some improvement due to chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and improved seeds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Economic activity totally depends on the favorable climate and better agricultural yield. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, several predominantly agricultural exporters and oil importers saw deterioration in their terms of trade and for a number of countries, these shocks compromised their relatively stable economies. Times, Sunday Times This caused friction with the local populace, which was until this time predominantly agricultural. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Formerly predominantly agricultural, it has become more commercially oriented since an autobahn exit was built in the 1950s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Predominantly agricultural it had an area of 634sqmi km2 and population of just 1,15,040 in 1898. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The town has long had a predominantly agricultural function. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 农业的 Japanese: 農業の |
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