Smallholding

Definition

smallholding /'smç:lhå7ldÇ5/ n ( Brit ) ယင္းေျမကြက္ကေလး။

Examples

1. ‘In warm weather
2. one eats outside in an orange grove with views over rustic villas and smallholdings.’
3. ‘Nafta is also said to have put 250
4. 000 maize farmers in Mexico out of work
5. their smallholdings no match for the industrial farms of the American Midwest.’
6. ‘Their parents fished along the Luapula river and cultivated seasonal crops on subsistence smallholdings
7. so purchasing expensive textbooks was out of the question.’
8. ‘Some 20 years ago Midrand was an agricultural zone
9. with smallholdings and farmlands.’
10. ‘Like much of northern Portugal
11. Bairrada is an area of agricultural smallholdings.’
12. ‘Dispossession from small rural landholdings and the decline in the viability of many smallholdings in the 19th century led to widespread evictions.’
13. ‘Just north of Angera
14. along a road edged by smallholdings
15. vineyards and the occasional rustic villa
16. is the sleepy village of Ranco.’
17. ‘I wonder if many farms or smallholdings were lost in New Orleans or don't they have that sort of thing there?’
18. ‘In Byzantium
19. tenant smallholdings quickly became the most widespread mode of cultivation
20. with the decrease in the number of large estates and a near total eclipse of farming by the owners until the eleventh century.’
21. ‘Percy Chapman & Son was established in 1886 by Percy Chapman when he was 16
22. selling corn and seed to local smallholdings.’
23. ‘But he also put in train measures to tackle the chronic shortage of smallholdings in the island by dividing up some of the large estates.’
24. ‘In Barbados
25. sugar cultivation hastened the rise of larger plantations and the decline in the number of smallholdings - and
26. of course
27. a growing proportion of the population was black and enslaved.’
28. ‘His ‘hands-on’ experience comes from running the family-owned estate which comprises 11 tenanted farms
29. ranging from 20-acre smallholdings up to 500 acres.’
30. ‘This community typifies agricultural production in the State of Mexico which
31. characterized by smallholdings
32. has traditionally been one of the main maizeproducing states.’
33. ‘The committee also recommended that physical security on farms and smallholdings
34. a suitable replacement for the commando system
35. proper policing and rural security also should be addressed.’
36. ‘The left overs will be thrown to the masses who have smallholdings and are predominately Rail employees.’
37. ‘They are a nuisance to poultry farms and smallholdings.’
38. ‘Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.’
39. ‘Meanwhile
40. deer are eating all the trees
41. reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business.’
42. ‘Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings
43. whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings.’