agro-

The ecological relationships of agriculture in general or of a particular agricultural locale.

A specialist in the science and technology of agriculture, farm production, the machinery needed for efficient production, etc.

Someone who uses technological devices and principles in agriculture to improve crop production.

1. An innovative technology designed to render agricultural production more efficient and profitable.
2. The use of technological devices and principles in agriculture to imporve crop production.

That branch of agriculture dealing with the conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles on the farm or in close relation to it.

The participation by people who go to farms for entertaining activities: "Some farmers are profiting from agrotrourism by setting up labyrinths in the grain fields for people to find their way around and to take part in other activities that bring more financial income."

The Strategic Hamlet Program was a plan by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to combat the nationalist insurgency by means of population transfer.

Recognizing the danger that the guerrillas posed if they had the support of the peasants, President Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu implemented the Rural Community Development Program (later known as "Agroville") in 1959.

Based partly on the success of a similar program in Malaya used by the British to suppress a communist uprising beginning in 1948, the Agroville Plan endeavored to remove the "neutral" population from guerrilla contact.

Through direct force and/or incentives, peasants in rural communities were separated and relocated into large communities called "Agrovilles". By 1960, there were twenty-three of these Agrovilles, each consisting of many thousands of people.

This mass resettlement created a strong backlash from peasants and forced the central government to rethink its strategy.