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Agriculturalist spoke to drug business (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pharma

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'agriculturalist spoke' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'drug business' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'drug' could be 'h' (H is an example) and 'h' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'parma' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'to' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for pharma that I've seen is " drugs industry".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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