independent farmer

collocation in English

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independent
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈpen.dənt/us
/ˌɪn.dɪˈpen.dənt/
not influenced or controlled in any way by other people, events, ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mər/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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(Definition ofindependentandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It goes against the grain of theindependentfarmerto co-operate.
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Today, however, the son of a farm labourer has less prospect than at any time in the last hundred years of becoming first a smallholder and then anindependentfarmer.
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But as eachindependentfarmerin the country could choose what goi represented him the system could be claimed as an early form of democracy.
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Twelve farmer andindependentfarmercandidates were elected in rural constituencies.
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These payments could take the form of land which would give the servant the opportunity to become anindependentfarmeror a free laborer.
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The model man is theindependentfarmer, free of superiors and self-governing.
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All of these independent farmers and artisans were implicitly male.
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Settlers were colonists who started new settlements in previously non-populated areas - usually small independent farmers.
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However, in addition to the sharecroppers, some of the agricultural labour was provided by small independent farmers and day labourers.
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Some women worked on their husband's farm and harvested the crops, while many women had their own land, were independent farmers, cash-crop producers and main producers of livestock.
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In some counties the number of agricultural workers employed in proportion to the number of independent farmers may be very large.
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Our second industry is agriculture, including a host of small independent farmers and smallholders.
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It is not a happy position for proud and independent farmers to be in.
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These paragraphs about the "economically viable units", and those dealing with the aid to amalgamation, fill many of these proud and independent farmers with a good deal of apprehension.
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However, farmers with access to good road communications often left the contract, indicating that contract farming had helped them to develop into independent farmers.
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Another response by the latifundia to labour shortages was to act as merchants, buying wheat produced by independent farmers or from farmers that hired land.
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Another response by the latifundia to labour shortages was to act as merchants buying wheat produced by independent farmers or from farmers that hired land.
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They confiscated grain and meat from independent farmers, and took part in arresting them as the enemies of the state, along with regular police.
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