agro-industrial
Americanadjective
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relating to agro-industry.
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relating to both agriculture and industry or industrial processes.
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"We chose Decatur because it is located in a very typical Midwestern agro-industrial watershed, making it an ideal case study for our model," Wallington said.
From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2024
Second, governments should reorient subsidies into plant-based food production instead of supporting agro-industrial meat production.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2024
Another zone, a sprawling agro-industrial park called Orquidea near the southern city of Choluteca, is advancing as well, but is more prosaic.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2022
The fast-growing industry, powered by dozens of giant agro-industrial complexes along with hundreds of smaller operators across northern and central Mexico, supplies more than half of all tomatoes consumed in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2021
The free agro-industrial communes, of which so much was spoken in England and France before 1848, need not be small phalansteries, or small communities of 2000 persons.
From The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz
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