The word "agriculture" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to the art and science of cultivating the soil, producing and harvesting crops, and raising livestock. Example sentence: We studied the history and importance of agriculture to the economy in our social studies class.
He said that, in addition to scrapping fossil fuel subsidies and introducing a carbon tax, the World Bank's plan involved spending more on energy efficiency, measures to make agriculture greener and changes to help cities become less polluted and more liveable.
More training The ministry of agriculture has written to all poultry meat plants about improving standards and wants vets to offer more training in basic hygiene.
The proportion of aid allocated to agriculture fell from 17% in 1980 to just 3% in 2005.
Last year, AMPION helped create 30 new ventures in 15 African countries in industries from healthcare to agriculture.
African leaders sent a signal last week that agriculture in the ascendant sector when, for the first time ever, they selected an agriculture minister, Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina, to head the African Development Bank.
The economies of many African countries are growing faster than anywhere else in the world – and agriculture, which accounts for a third of Africa's GDP, is poised to be the next instalment of the "Africa rising" narrative.
I recently left Rwanda after six years as minister of agriculture and animal resources and I am now president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra) a group that views agriculture – the sector that employs the majority of Africans – as the key to driving sustainable, equitable growth across the continent.
In similar work in Rwanda, the Bank attributed 45% of Rwanda's rapid poverty reduction in a relatively short period of time to growth of the agriculture sector and associated industries and services.
What is even more exciting is the agreement, but also the echo to do things differently; to stop piloting and go to scale with what works (and there is already a lot that works); and to treat agriculture, including smallholder agriculture, as a business.
At the request of the Greek ministry of agriculture, Russian regulators will reportedly start inspecting dairy producers in Greece on 20 April for compliance with norms.
60% of the population is in employment, mainly in agriculture and tourism.
