smallholder farmer

collocation in English

meaningsofsmallholderandfarmer

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smallholder
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsmɔːlˌhəʊl.dər/us
/ˈsmɑːlˌhoʊl.dɚ/
someone who owns ...
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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 ofsmallholderandfarmerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No rhizobium inoculant or fertilizer was used on the legumes, reflecting recentsmallholderfarmerpractice.
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The analysis took into account the benefits and costs that a localsmallholderfarmerwould consider, including incremental revenues and production costs such as input costs and local wages.
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However, it was not financially attractive for smallholder farmers to intercrop compared with growing low input sole crop maize.
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This all points to the challenge that smallholder farmers face with incorporating more legumes as intercrops (or as rotations) into their maize system.
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Rising fertilizer costs made them unaffordable for many smallholder farmers.
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This was consistent with the project's focus on smallholder farmers, not on general production.
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The principal problem of fallows is the lack of income for the smallholder farmers.
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The area was populated primarily by smallholder farmers producing subsistence and cash crops.
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However, in reality, these are very often forced upon tropical smallholder farmers by the alternating wet- and dry seasons.
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Smallholder farmers generally use manual labor combined with low level technologies to carry out their agricultural production.
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However, this is unlikely to be practised by smallholder farmers.
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The successful use of crop residues by tropical smallholder farmers depends on the process of management to ensure proper degradation and decomposition.
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Smallholder farmers need to be apprised of this and extension advice on store sanitation or safe storage of firewood should take note of these findings.
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At present, the level of adoption of these measures by tropical smallholder farmers varies widely between regions and cropping systems.
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Linking financial capital with smallholder farmers in this way can be one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty over time in rural areas.
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The thrust of these initiatives was to enable smallholder farmers to access tractors either through hire or purchase respectively.
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Alan's theory of the normal surplus seems not to have lost actuality : smallholder farmers plant as much maize as they can.
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This brings into question the effectiveness of encouraging smallholder farmers to use more inorganic fertilizers by giving fertilizer subsidies as being practiced by many developing countries in the tropics.
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Cowpea is grown almost exclusively by low-resource or smallholder farmers, either intercropped with sorghum or millet, or as a sole crop.
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