agromineral

English

Etymology

agro- + mineral

Noun

agromineral (plural agrominerals)

  1. Any mineral that has an agricultural use, either as a nutrient or a fertilizer
    • 2002, Tom Vandenbosch, Farmers of the Future: A Strategy for Action, →ISBN:
      Also, the effectiveness of the agrominerals has to be assessed along with an appraisal of risks, costs and benefits of agromineral development.

Translations

Adjective

agromineral (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to agricultural and mineral resources.
    • 2009, Lucien van der Walt, Michael Schmidt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, page 10:
      In 1996, almost a billion people were either unemployed or underemployed worldwide; the unemployment was highest in the agromineral and semi-industrial countries, but many highly industrialised economies had unemployment rates over 10 percent.
    • 2011, Barry Munslow, Proletarianisation in the Third World, →ISBN, page 216:
      Metropolitan investments in agromineral extraction (coal, rubber, tea, sugar cane, tin, phosphates, iron ore, and so forth) assumed the form of large-scale estates where considerable pools of low-cost wage-labour were a necessary component of expanded output.
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