Smallholder

Definition

smallholder /'smç:lhå7ldå(r)/ n ( Brit ) စိုက္ပ်ဳိးေမြးျမဴေရးအတြက္ ေျမကေလးတစ္ကြက္ ပိုင္သူ၊ ငွားရမ္းသူ။

Examples

1. ‘What about smallholders and hobby farmers - those people who have fewer than 250 sheep?’
2. ‘Thus began the popular tradition in which Hamilton was branded as an elitist
3. a friend to the wealthy and parasitical instead of to the little man
4. the farmer
5. the smallholder.’
6. ‘Coffee farmers
7. mostly poor smallholders
8. now sell their coffee beans for much less than they cost to produce - only 60 per cent of production costs in Vietnam's Dak Lak Province.’
9. ‘In 1068 the Domesday Book recorded a population of 650 people
10. including 28 slaves
11. 45 smallholders and 23 swineherds.’
12. ‘He is a smallholder
13. a farmer of Chardonnay
14. and right now his local reputation and personal pride is on the line.’
15. ‘The focus moreover is on small farmers
16. particularly the intensive smallholders who are most likely to be affected by GM crops.’
17. ‘They divided the common lands and sold off the grand-ducal estates
18. to raise production by creating a class of independent smallholders in place of the poor tenant farmers.’
19. ‘More than 60 per cent of farmers in Zambia are smallholder or peasant farmers who depend largely on rain-fed agriculture.’
20. ‘The EU said in a statement it believes that the highest incidence of poverty is among the smallholder communal farmers.’
21. ‘Coffee farmers are mostly poor smallholders in Latin America
22. Africa
23. and parts of East Asia such as Vietnam.’
24. ‘Most are smallholder farmers who call themselves campesinos.’
25. ‘Once a food exporter
26. Malawi is now a net importer: persistent drought is a factor but so too are cuts in farming subsidies and smallholders switching to cash crops like tobacco.’
27. ‘If the local election does go ahead
28. I will be very sensitive to farmers and smallholders who don't want me to approach their land or properties.’
29. ‘We have a wide range of goods produced by local farmers and smallholders including pickles
30. jams and preserves
31. free range meats
32. home grown herbs
33. eggs and plenty of seasonal vegetables.’
34. ‘It is at this point that we see the emergence of the yeoman farmer: a peasant smallholder with up to 100 acres of land.’
35. ‘In this way
36. co-operative international agricultural research provides crucial support for smallholder farmers to move from subsistence to surplus agriculture.’
37. ‘He created an agrarian dictatorship in a country where the majority of the population consisted of agrarian smallholders.’
38. ‘The estate plantations provide smallholders with access to planting materials
39. extension services
40. and iruit transport and processing.’
41. ‘It contributed to the massive reduction in the numbers in agriculture throughout the EU with the exit of smallholders and the increased size of farm units.’
42. ‘The beneficiaries are not smallholder farmers but huge multinational agribusinesses.’