Abandoning agriculture in favor of manufacturing, he forced many of the nation's rural dwellers into unheated apartment buildings.

A government survey released last year found that 40 percent of farmers said they would abandon agriculture if they could.

In 1737, Stepan Krasheninnikov noted that they had abandoned agriculture and were distinguishable from their Yakut neighbors only in religion.

This had profound effects on Bermuda, allowing the Colony to abandon agriculture entirely, and turn to shipbuilding and seafaring.

Or you might imagine throttling back much further, back to hunter-gatherer society, where we live off the natural products of the land and abandon even agriculture.

Over the years, several Jats abandoned agriculture in favour of urban jobs, and used their dominant economic and political status to claim higher social status.

Why labor so hard to crush a thesis so extreme that it even requires that we abandon agriculture?

After 1860 and the opening of the American West, farmers abandoned agriculture on the Cape.

The paradox is that, in a time of global plenty, farmers in developing countries are abandoning the land and agriculture.

Given the fishing rights on the river by the subsequent settlement, provided he would sell only to it, he abandoned agriculture for fishing.