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agrosupply en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæɡ.roʊ.səˌplaɪ/

Etymology

From agro- + supply.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The provision or distribution of agricultural inputs and resources, such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and farming equipment, essential for agricultural production.
   • The period from the late 1970s onward thus represents a more unstable period for the agrosupply sector, facing both industrial restructuring processes leading to further concentration, on the one hand, and a dwindling market situation brought about by the demise of the postwar productionist agricultural policies on the other. 1994, Philip McMichael, The Global Restructuring of Agro-food Systems, Cornell University Press, page 119:
   • Invivo, one of the leading French cooperatives in the grain and agrosupply sectors, which announced a turnover of €6.4 billion, highlights: “big data applications will be developed in sowing, crop protection, irrigation, the management of harvests, equipment and livestock breeding”. 2017 September 21, Feras A. Batarseh, Ruixin Yang, Federal Data Science: Transforming Government and Agricultural Policy Using Artificial Intelligence, Academic Press, pages 82-83:
   • COCERAL (Acronym for Comité du Commerce des céréales, aliments du bétail, oléagineux, huile d'olive, huiles et graisses et agrofournitures) is a European association, representing the trade in cereals, rice, feedstuffs, oilseeds, olive oil, oils and fats and agrosupply. 2023 November 23, Wikipedia contributors, “COCERAL”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

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