intensive agriculture
1intensive agriculture — ➔ agriculture * * * intensive agriculture UK US noun [U] (also intensive farming) ENVIRONMENT ► farming that uses a lot of machinery, labour, chemicals, etc. in order to grow as many crops or keep as many animals as possible on the amount of land …
2intensive agriculture — in agricultural economics, system of cultivation using large amounts of labour and capital relative to land area. Large amounts of labour and capital are necessary to the application of fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides… …
3intensive agriculture — the application of high levels of capital and/or labour inputs to units of land area. Thus is can be true of agriculture in both the ELDW and the EMDW …
4intensive agriculture — investing of extra money and work to produce larger crops …
5Intensive farming — or intensive agriculture is an agricultural production system characterized by the high inputs of capital, fertilizers, labour, or labour saving technologies such as pesticides relative to land area. [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article 9042533… …
6agriculture — ag‧ri‧cul‧ture [ˈægrɪˌkʌltʆə ǁ ər] noun [uncountable] FARMING the practice or science of farming: • Agriculture accounts for over 25% of net domestic production. agricultural adjective : • sales of agricultural machinery exˌtensive ˈagriculture …
7intensive farming — ➔ farming * * * intensive farming UK US noun [U] ENVIRONMENT ► INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE(Cf. ↑intensive agriculture) …
8Agriculture in Argentina — Agriculture is one of the bases of Argentina s economy. Argentine agriculture is relatively capital intensive, today providing about 7% of all employment [http://www.mecon.gov.ar/ Ministerio de Economía y Producción República Argentina] ] and,… …
9Agriculture — General …
10agriculture, origins of — Introduction the active production of useful plants or animals in ecosystems that have been created by people. Agriculture has often been conceptualized narrowly, in terms of specific combinations of activities and organisms wet rice production… …