Noun: agriculture 'ag-ru,kúl-chu(r)
- The practice of cultivating land or raising livestock
"Good animal agriculture is essential for a productive farm";
- farming, husbandry
- A large-scale farming enterprise
"The agriculture conglomerate owned vast tracts of farmland across the Midwest";
- agribusiness, factory farm
- 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
- Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, USDA
Derived forms: agricultures
Type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, cultivation, executive department
Encyclopedia: Agriculture, United States Department of