Sentences with phrase «part of agricultural produce»

the tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to God or for works of mercy, or A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.

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Most Pulayas were agricultural labourers and were held in bondage (adirna) or in a client relationship with their high caste landlords Part of the «privilege» of being such a client relationship was a right to claim bare maintenance from the landlord, and to a small share in the produce of the land It was a highly exploitative and oppressive system

Residue Monitoring of chemical residues in food through the NRS is part of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources strategy to minimise chemical residues in agricultural produce.

Prioritizing renewable materials generally produced from agricultural crops, such as organic cotton, wool, sisal, cork, and bamboo, and products made from wood derived from certified well - managed forests is part of this mindset.

In 2009, aerial laser mapping of Caracol allowed archaeologists to literally «see» through the jungle growth to produce a 3 - D map of Caracol, and to reveal many parts of Caracol that had not yet been discovered, especially paved causeways and agricultural terraces that fed Caracol's large population.

About one billion tons of inedible parts of agricultural food crops end up as waste worldwide, and up to 50 percent of food produced in the U.S. goes to waste.

USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe commented that, «While food safety is a vitally important part of successfully marketing produce and other agricultural products, other federal and state public health agencies are better equipped to perform this function.»

For the vast majority of that time period, the commerce and industry of the north (powered to a great extent by hydro power prior to the widespread adoption of coal as a fossil fuel) produced much higher GDP per capita than the agricultural economies of the South, particularly because the infamous «three - fifths compromise» that gave the South Congressional representation based in part upon the number of slaves who lived there (30 % or more of the population of many states) did not apply to capitation taxes.