monoculture
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- noun
- /ˈmɒnəˌkʌltʃər/
- Specialized
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monocultivo
- Farmers often rely on monoculture to maximize crop yields from a single piece of land.
- monoculture crops
- monoculture-based agriculture
- Large-scale monoculture
The, the, the second, The second biggest risk is probably mass animal monoculture.
- The, the, the second, The second biggest risk is probably mass animal monoculture.
- That is a monoculture crop that is just absolute garbage and not the same quality as what you're going to grow right from your home.
Examples
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Deforestation and monoculture replantation are also responsible for the destruction of wildlife habitat.
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Once you've got that seemingly inexhaustible source of nitrogen fertilizer, you don't need animals on your farm and you can move toward monoculture production that is to say all corn or all soybeans.
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Cuba remains a monoculture economy whose main export is sugar.
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With large extensions of monoculture, native habitat loses space to agriculture.
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Such results clearly indicate that the productivity of intensive rice monoculture systems is difficult to sustain over a long period of time.
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Larger farms specialize in a limited number of monoculture commercial crops.
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Food sovereignty allows us to put an end to monocultures and agribusiness.
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Agriculturally, an integrated agro-ecosystem has many advantages over the monoculture technology of the modern food system.
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In the United States, the economic incentives to intensify production in monoculture systems outweigh the incentives to diversify agricultural systems.
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GMOs are part of the business as usual, along with synthetic fertilizers and large-scale, monoculture-based agriculture.
Academic text (2010)
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Etymology
Monoculture comes from mono- meaning 'one' and culture meaning 'growing' or 'farming', as in agriculture. So a monoculture is literally growing the same single crop in a field, which is why it reduces variety and can harm soil health.