agromineral

plural agrominerals

1. Any mineral that has an agricultural use, either as a nutrient or a fertilizer

   Also, the effectiveness of the agrominerals has to be assessed along with an appraisal of risks, costs and benefits of agromineral development.

   2002, Tom Vandenbosch, Farmers of the Future: A Strategy for Action, →ISBN

1. not comparablePertaining to agricultural and mineral resources.

   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.

   2009, Lucien van der Walt, Michael Schmidt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, page 10

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   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.

   2011, Barry Munslow, Proletarianisation in the Third World, →ISBN, page 216