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Etymology edit

agro- +‎ industry

Noun edit

agroindustry (countable and uncountable, plural agroindustries)

  1. The agricultural activity of an area viewed as an industrial sector of the economy.
    • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 80:
      In the seventeenth century, the strategy for sugar production, a labor-intensive agro-industry, was to keep the manpower cost down through slavery.

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