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- noun The
agricultural activity of an area viewed as anindustrial sector of theeconomy .
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Examples
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With the markets, price incentives, and tight management required by this kind of agroindustry, much higher levels of productivity could supply both food and fuel biomass needs and could revitalize rural areas.
Chapter 4 1983
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The plantation owner dealt with the entire operation: agriculture, agroindustry, manpower and export, while also being active in the community and the synagogue, which were located in town.
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Or we could ask him how come nobody is crashing at the gate to invest in agroindustry in Venezuela.
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The centre has developed courses in rural agroindustry for potential entrepreneurs and is intimately involved with the development, support, and dissemination of agroindustry in the region.
79. Community-run preschool centres in low-income areas 1992
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Forest loss has been primarily a consequence of industrial logging and subsistence agriculture, but large-scale agroindustry-especially development of oil palm plantations-has emerged as an important new driver of land use change.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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Forest loss has been primarily a consequence of industrial logging and subsistence agriculture, but large-scale agroindustry-especially development of oil palm plantations-has emerged as an important new driver of land use change.
Mongabay.com News 2010
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Colombian community leader assassinated by agroindustry-backed vigilantes
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Colombian community leader assassinated by agroindustry-backed vigilantes
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Colombian community leader assassinated by agroindustry-backed vigilantes
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Colombian community leader assassinated by agroindustry-backed vigilantes
Mongabay.com News 2009
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