| 词汇 | example_english_cocoa-farm |
| 释义 | cocoa farmcollocation in Englishmeanings of cocoaand farmThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with cocoa or farm. cocoa noun[U] uk /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ us /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/ a dark brown powder made from cocoa beans, used to make chocolate and add a chocolate flavour to food ... See more at cocoa farm noun[C] uk /fɑːm/ us /fɑːrm/ an area of land, together with a house and buildings, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals as ... See more at farm Examples of cocoa farmThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The activities that engaged the villagers' attention included keeping productive food-crop farms, organizing fishing expeditions, hunting, and cultivating cocoa farms. Cocoa farms were not adequately sprayed and farmers could not afford to apply fertilisers to overused land (interviews). In establishing their cocoa farms, farmers would be given credit for labour, fertilisers, seedlings and disease control. They saw their cocoa farms as the springboard for transporting their children into the more prosperous world of the oil boom. In the absence of organized protest, officials refused to accept farmers' claims that the control board's price policy made cocoa farming unremunerative. This movement led to an increase in the cost of maintaining cocoa farms, as competition for labour had become more intense. Cocoa prices between 1976 and 1985 hardly kept pace with the cost of maintaining cocoa farms. On occasion, local customary rights were limited in order to facilitate the creation of cocoa farms. There is a telling reconstruction of how the role and perception of the foreigner were changed through the development of cocoa farms and the monetization of agricultural production. Local ownership of cocoa farms has many advantages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Working their own little cocoa farms gave them a considerable degree of autonomy. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are approximately 4.5 million cocoa farms around the world. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Traditional cocoa farms are planted in the shade among other crops and trees. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of cocoa Go to the definition of farm See other collocations with cocoa See other collocations with farm |
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