Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.

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Agricultural programs & laws

germicide

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Any compound that kills disease-causing microorganisms. Germicides must be registered by the Environmental Protection Agency as pesticides.

Geographic Information System (GIS)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Computerized systems used to compile, retrieve, analyze, and display spatially referenced data. Farming activities that utilize GIS typically include harvesting, fertilizing, pest control, seeding, ...

genome

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism. USDA’s research agencies have a Plant Genome Mapping Program to identify, characterize, and map the position of agriculturally ...

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A term, currently used most often in international trade discussions, that designates crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods (e.g., Flavr ...

Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A regulatory category created for a group of food additives that were exempted from the more rigorous regulatory requirements for food additives in the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Food Drug ...

General Sales Manager (GSM)

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

General Sales Manager of the Foreign Agricultural Service. This office administers the export credit guarantee programs (GSM-102 and GSM-103), the export enhancement program, the P.L. 480 program, ...

genetic engineering

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The use of recombinant DNA or other specific molecular gene transfer or exchange techniques to add desirable traits to plants, animals, or other organisms, or to enhance biological processes. ...