| 单词 | water farming |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater farming water farming n. (a) the management of water for agricultural purposes, or the use of land for the collection and storage of water (now rare); (b) the raising or cultivation of aquatic animals or plants for food; = aquaculture n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] pisciculture1807 water farming1811 fish-breeding1860 fish-hatching1862 fish-culture1865 aquiculture1867 mariculture1867 fish-farming1869 pond culture1883 aquaculture1887 aquafarming1896 sea-farming1962 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > other systems of growing crops water farming1811 catch-cropping1851 sharecropping1877 intercropping1898 intertillage1912 strip-cropping1936 alley farming1984 1811 Ipswich Jrnl. 5 Jan. The low land wheats, except where relieved by good water farming, have suffered materially by this ungenial weather. 1868 W. Peard Pract. Water-farming Pref. p. ix Water-farming..must be conducted with skill, care, and at least with some proportion of the capital now employed on the land. 1910 J. Mathews Conservation of Water iii. 65 It is enough to show here the need and the character of this water farming which is so necessary to irrigation farming in the west. 1960 Times 25 July 11/7 A duck-and-pond system of water-farming in Southern Rhodesia has netted over two tons of fish to the acre. 2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 38 Crawfish grow wild in the freshwater wetlands of Louisiana and, through aquaculture (water farming), provide the state with a profitable industry. < as lemmas |
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