Agriculture in Portugal is based on small to medium-sized family-owned dispersed units; however, the sector also includes larger-scale intensive farming...
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The economy of Portugal is ranked 34th in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report for 2019. The great majority of the international trade...
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Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise...
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Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring the westernmost point in continental...
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Denominação de Origem Controlada (redirect from DOC (Portugal))
origin for fruit, wines, cheeses, butters, and other agricultural products from Portugal. Portuguese wine regions, as well as producers of several other...
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Quinta (estate) (redirect from Quinta (agriculture))
palaces in continental Portugal. The term is also used as an appellation for agricultural estates, such as wineries, vineyards, and olive groves. In urban...
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vineyards in the Douro Winemaking Agriculture in Portugal "O vinho na antiguidade clássica - Alguns apontamentos sobre Lousada" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Oppidum...
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Portuguese: Ministério da Agricultura e Pesca) is a Portuguese government ministry. The Ministry of Agriculture was first...
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An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development)...
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Dehesa (category Agriculture in Portugal)
and cultural landscape of southern and central Spain and southern Portugal; in Portugal, it is known as a montado. Its name comes from the Latin defensa...
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worked to reorganise his country's economy and gave an impetus to Portuguese agriculture. He ordered the planting of a large pine forest (that still exists...
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Pêra Rocha (category Agriculture in Portugal)
exported in 2004 to countries like Britain, Brazil, France, Ireland, Russia, Poland, the Netherlands, Canada and Spain. Agriculture in Portugal List of...
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Christianity is the predominant religion in Portugal, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. Portugal is a secular state and its constitution...
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overview of and topical guide to Portugal: Portugal is a sovereign country principally located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southern Europe. It is the westernmost...
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The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) is a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈta.ðu ˈno.vu], lit. 'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from...
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Moliço (category Agriculture in Portugal)
Moliço is the Portuguese word for the submerged aquatic vegetation collected for use in agriculture. This word was derived from the Latin mollis, used...
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(European Portuguese pronunciation: [rɨˈðõdu] ) is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2016 was 6, 567, in an area of...
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Neolithic Revolution (redirect from Agriculture in Neolithic China)
also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle...
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Portugal is a coastal nation in western Europe, located at the western end of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain (on its northern and eastern frontiers:...
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Agriculture began independently in different parts of the globe, and included a diverse range of taxa. At least eleven separate regions of the Old and...
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The Kingdom of Portugal was established from the county of Portugal in the 1130s, ruled by the Portuguese House of Burgundy. During most of the 12th and...
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São Tomé and Príncipe (redirect from Education in São Tomé and Príncipe)
São Tomé and Príncipe has been based on plantation agriculture. At the time of independence, Portuguese-owned plantations occupied 90% of the cultivated...
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Carnation Revolution (redirect from Freedom Day (Portugal))
port wine), tourism (in Estoril, Cascais, Sintra and the Algarve) and agriculture (the Alentejo, known as the breadbasket of Portugal) by the early-1970s...
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agriculture of Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy. As of 2024 the country is the second biggest grain exporter in the...
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The Portuguese Empire was a colonial empire that existed between 1415 and 1999. In conjunction with the Spanish Empire, it ushered in the European Age...
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is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and...
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Agriculture is the largest employment sector in Bangladesh, making up 14.2 percent of Bangladesh's GDP in 2017 and employing about 42.7 percent of the...
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A number of food and drink products from Portugal have been granted Protected Geographical Status under European Union law and UK law through the Protected...
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The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The...
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