agriculture

Converse of object

• industrialize: The response of governments has been to further industrialize agriculture, encouraging monocultures and the high use of chemical inputs at increasing costs.
• swidden: It is achieved by enriching and extending the normal fallow of swidden agriculture.
• practice: The South Florida Indians, however, are not supposed to have practiced agriculture.
• burn: They live on mountain slopes, between 300 and 900m altitude and practice slash and burn agriculture.
• transform: Development impact The Green Revolution transformed agriculture in a country where hunger is still an issue today.
• promote: Part B outlines the new policy, which promotes sustainable agriculture, and part C focuses on policy implementation.

Adjective modifier

• sustainable: However, to be sustainable, agriculture must provide the farmer with a living.
• intensive: The cassava growing region of coastal Kenya is separated from cultivated areas inland by an arid belt which does not support intensive agriculture.
• organic: Having terrified the consumer, they follow up by painting a lyrical picture of organic agriculture.
• small-scale: The Berbers probably date back to the original population in the region, and they continue to dominate small-scale agriculture in the country.
• rain-fed: The region contains most of the country's rain-fed agriculture.
• conventional: Alternatives to conventional agriculture for meeting world food needs in the next century.

Modifies a noun

• spokesman: Tim Yeo, the shadow agriculture spokesman, became the first senior Tory openly to endorse Portillo last Friday night.
• minister: Douglas Hogg MP and a former agriculture minister, condemned the new legislation as " offensive and illiberal " .
• subsidy: Oxfam is campaigning to reform agriculture subsidies that make it impossible for small-scale farmers to make a decent living.
• forestry: Specifically outlaw online betting in imposed regulation agriculture fisheries forestry.

Noun used with modifier

• subsistence: In rural areas, the ongoing marginalization of poor farmers has led them to depend increasingly upon subsistence agriculture.
• peasant: Subsistence peasant agriculture was not the subject of any systematic statistical surveys then, he said.
• plantation: At Kericho we had the opportunity to walk in the Kakamega tropical rainforest, and looked at tea plantation agriculture.
• conservation: Therefore, zero or minimum tillage and direct seeding are important elements of conservation agriculture.