monoculture
单一文化,单一栽培,单一种植,单一养殖
Definitions
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Agriculture.
- : the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
Examples
In Europe, blended farms that grow wheat or sunflowers between rows of wild cherry and walnut trees, for example, can produce up to 40 percent more than monocultures of the same crops for a given area.
While industrialized monoculture is the norm among big players, small-scale farmers are more able to incorporate trees into their fields, or bring crops into the forests.
The need to move fruit and nut production east, away from increasingly drought-stricken California, may provide an extra push for bringing more trees onto monoculture farms, Lovell says.
The TV series was supposed to be a satire about the tech industry’s myopia and monoculture, not career inspiration.
She was a bit of monoculture emerging from our ever-fragmented consumption habits.