单词 | agroville |
释义 | agrovillen. Now historical. In the Vietnam War (1955–75): any of a number of purpose-built fortified agricultural centres in South Vietnam, established under a policy of relocating and concentrating dispersed farming communities for safety against the Viet Cong.The policy was introduced in 1959 by President Diem of Vietnam but soon failed, largely as a result of peasant opposition. It was replaced in 1961 by the ‘strategic hamlet’ programme, under which existing villages were fortified. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > collective or co-operative farm club-farm1885 subak1897 collective farm1919 kolkhoz1921 sovkhoz1921 collective1925 moshav1927 kibbutz1929 agro-city1950 agro-town1950 agrogorod1951 agroville1960 nahal1963 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > in countries other than Britain Dusun1783 quilombo1869 mura1876 compound1893 agroville1960 1960 E. Durbrow Despatch 16 Feb. in Foreign Relations U.S. 1958–60: Vietnam (1986) 285 Diem referred particularly to the ‘agrovilles’,..and the general success of the resettlement program. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 358 The official policy of concentrating rural population in agrovilles..met little enthusiasm from the cultivators who were thus uprooted. 1982 J. P. Harrison Endless War (1989) viii. 222 By late 1961 only twenty-two of the agrovilles had been completed. 2008 D. Model State of Darkness iii. 39 Often more peasants were forced to abandon their villages to build an agroville than could be accommodated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1960 |
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