单词 | scientific farming |
释义 | > as lemmasscientific farming scientific farming n. now freq. historical (an approach to) farming which is based on science rather than traditional practices. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > types of farming high culture1771 scientific farming1789 metaying1792 high farming1815 petite culture1848 sharefarming1857 urban agriculture1860 bush-farming1866 mixed farming1872 dry farming1878 co-aration1883 co-ploughing1883 smallholding1889 power-farming1913 dry-land farming1914 third(s)-and-fourth(s)1940 link system1950 green revolution1968 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 19 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 115 I wish my brethren to stick to their scientific farming, and leave the practical to those who understand it. 1886 C. M. Yonge Chantry House I. xvii. 159 [He] worked off his superfluous energy on scientific farming. 1902 A. Bennett Anna of Five Towns ix. 205 A great landowner is exhibiting the beauties of scientific farming for the behoof of his villagers. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British vii. 460 We both [sc. the United States and Britain] wanted to convert everybody to our way of doing things, whether it was Christianity, literacy, sanitation, democratic government, or, later on, scientific farming and the Pill and IUD. < as lemmas |
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