agroindustrial
Adjective
Meaning
agroindustrial (not comparable)
relating to both agriculture and industry, or to agricultural industry, or to industrial agriculture
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Examples
Cacao is grown both by large agroindustrial plantations and small producers, the bulk of production coming from millions of farmers who have a few trees each. citation A tree begins to bear when it is four or five years old.
Raw materials and agroindustrial products represent half of exports with the other half being non-traditional exports such as clothing, electronics, machinery and services.
Since the implosion of the USSR in December 1991, Armenia has switched to small-scale agriculture away from the large agroindustrial complexes of the Soviet era.