Synonyms for agriculture
ˈæg rɪˌkʌl tʃəragri·cul·ture

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1. agriculture

   Agriculture is the generic term, including at once the science, the art, and the process of supplying human wants by raising the products of the soil, and by the associated industries; farming is the practise of agriculture as a business; there may be theoretical agriculture, but not theoretical farming; we speak of the science of agriculture, the business of farming; scientific agriculture may be wholly in books; scientific farming is practised upon the land; we say an agricultural college rather than a college of farming. Farming refers to the cultivation of considerable portions of land, and the raising of the coarser crops; gardening is the close cultivation of a small area for small fruits, flowers, vegetables, etc., and while it may be done upon a farm is yet a distinct industry. Gardening in general, kitchen-gardening, the cultivation of vegetables, etc., for the household, market-gardening, the raising of the same for sale, floriculture, the culture of flowers, and horticulture, the culture of fruits, flowers, or vegetables, are all departments of agriculture, but not strictly nor ordinarily of farming; farming is itself one department of agriculture. Husbandry is a general word for any form of practical agriculture, but is now chiefly poetical. Tillage refers directly to the work bestowed upon the land, as plowing, manuring, etc.; cultivation refers especially to the processes that bring forward the crop; we speak of the tillage of the soil, the cultivation of corn; we also speak of land as in a state of cultivation, under cultivation, etc. Culture is now applied to the careful development of any product to a state of perfection, especially by care through successive generations; the choice varieties of the strawberry have been produced by wise and patient culture; a good crop in any year is the result of good cultivation.

   Synonyms:
   cultivation, culture, farming, floriculture, gardening, horticulture, husbandry, kitchen-gardening, market-gardening, tillage

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1. agriculture

   Synonyms:
   cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillage

   Antonyms:
   sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture

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1. agribusiness, agriculture, factory farmnoun

   a large-scale farming enterprise

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, factory farm, husbandry, farming

2. farming, agriculture, husbandrynoun

   the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, husbandry, land, factory farm, farming

3. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDAnoun

   the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, factory farm, farming, husbandry

4. agriculturenoun

   the class of people engaged in growing food

   Synonyms:
   agribusiness, factory farm, farming, husbandry

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1. farming cooperatives

   it is the same as farming.

   working on a farm growing crops like corn, grains, etc.

   Submitted by JP03 on December 8, 2014  

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1. agriculturenoun

   Synonyms:
   tillage, husbandry, farming, culture, cultivation, geoponics

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1. agriculturenoun

   Synonyms:
   husbandry, farming, terra-culture, geoponics, agronomy

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1. List of paraphrases for "agriculture":

   agricultural, farming, 'agriculture, agricultura, farm, landwirtschaft, agricoltura, landbouw, 'agricoltura, cultivation, georgia, agrarian, agricole

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1. President Vladimir Putin:

   As for such a measure as raising export customs duties, yes, it is one of the solutions, and it is also being studied now, but according to the estimates by the agriculture ministry and the industry ministry, it may not lead to the desired result.

2. Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal:

   In Peru the biggest driver of deforestation is migratory agriculture, mostly poor people who migrate from the Andes to the Amazon. Illegal mining is also a big problem, the decree will affect everything related to land use ... I hope it will take effect in no more than two weeks.

3. Daren Bakst:

   Every little bit helps, and by reducing the unwarranted federal intrusion into agriculture, the market might adjust and create a new and possibly significant way of purchasing meat, the coronavirus and recent weather disasters have highlighted the failings of our subsidy system.

4. Rob Leclerc:

   A lot of people are gravitating to technology because they see this as a better way to institutionalize an investment in food and agriculture.

5. Andrew Broddus:

   The spider web effect of it spread through the industry and rural towns in the rice belt. Mills and rice drying facilities cut back on shifts, trucking and agriculture supply companies lost business.