Agricultural Engineering Quiz

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Agricultural engineering, also known as ______, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes

agricultural and biosystems engineering

Large irrigation structures were also present in Baluchistan and India before Christian era

2000 B.C.

Agricultural engineers make the engineering designs and plans in an project, usually in partnership with an agriculturist who is more proficient in farming and science

agricultural

The earliest plough was the ______

ard or scratch-plough Signup and view all the answers

Agricultural engineering was heavily present in ______

China Signup and view all the answers

Definition

In microeconomics, management and international political economy, vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It contrasts with horizontal integration, wherein a company produces several items that are related to one another. Vertical integration has also described management styles that bring large portions of the supply chain not only under a common ownership but also into one corporation (as in the 1920s when the Ford River Rouge Complex began making much of its own steel rather than buying it from suppliers). Vertical integration and expansion is desired because it secures supplies needed by the firm to produce its product and the market needed to sell the product. Vertical integration and expansion can become undesirable when its actions become anti-competitive and impede free competition in an open marketplace. Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the hold-up problem. A monopoly produced through vertical integration is called a vertical monopoly. Vertical in a supply chain measures a firm's distance from the final consumers; for example, a firm that sells directly to the consumers has a vertical position of 0, a firm that supplies to this firm has a vertical position of 1, and so on. Signup and view all the answers

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Vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It contrasts with ______ integration, wherein a company produces several items that are related to one another. Signup and view all the answers

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Vertical integration has also described management styles that bring large portions of the supply chain not only under a common ownership but also into one corporation (as in the 1920s when the Ford River Rouge Complex began making much of its own steel rather than buying it from suppliers). Vertical integration and expansion is desired because it secures supplies needed by the firm to produce its product and the market needed to sell the product. Vertical integration and expansion can become undesirable when its actions become anti-competitive and impede free competition in an open marketplace. Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the ______ problem. Signup and view all the answers

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A monopoly produced through vertical integration is called a ______ monopoly. Signup and view all the answers

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Vertical in a supply chain measures a firm's distance from the final consumers; for example, a firm that sells directly to the consumers has a vertical position of 0, a firm that supplies to this firm has a vertical position of 1, and so on. Signup and view all the answers

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consumers Signup and view all the answers

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Vertical integration and expansion can become undesirable when its actions become anti-competitive and impede free competition in an open marketplace. Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the hold-up problem. A monopoly produced through vertical integration is called a vertical monopoly. Vertical in a supply chain measures a firm's distance from the final consumers; for example, a firm that sells directly to the consumers has a vertical position of 0, a firm that supplies to this firm has a vertical position of 1, and so on. Signup and view all the answers

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marketplace Signup and view all the answers

Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land ______

conservation Signup and view all the answers

Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil ______

science Signup and view all the answers

Professionals of agronomy are termed ______

agronomists Signup and view all the answers

Plant breeding has increased crop yields and has improved the nutritional value of numerous crops, including ______, soybeans, and wheat

corn Signup and view all the answers

Agronomists use biotechnology to extend and expedite the development of desired ______

characteristics Signup and view all the answers

Flashcards

Agricultural Engineering

The application of engineering principles to agriculture.

Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering

Another name for agricultural engineering.