agroindustry

From agro- +‎ industry.

agroindustry (countable and uncountable, plural agroindustries)

1. Agricultural activity viewed as an industrial sector of the economy.

   Meronym: Big Ag

   Near-synonym: agribusiness

   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 80:

     In the seventeenth century, the strategy for sugar production, a labor-intensive agro-industry, was to keep the manpower cost down through slavery.