Dictionary entry
Smallholding
Pronunciation: /ˈsmɔːlhəʊldɪŋ/
Pronunciation
/ˈsmɔːlhəʊldɪŋ/
Myanmar Meaning
မြေယာတစ်ကွက်ထက်လျော့နည်းသည့် ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု။
Definition
smallholding /'smç:lhå7ldÇ5/ n ( Brit ) ယင္းေျမကြက္ကေလး။
Examples
- ‘In warm weather
- one eats outside in an orange grove with views over rustic villas and smallholdings.’
- ‘Nafta is also said to have put 250
- 000 maize farmers in Mexico out of work
- their smallholdings no match for the industrial farms of the American Midwest.’
- ‘Their parents fished along the Luapula river and cultivated seasonal crops on subsistence smallholdings
- so purchasing expensive textbooks was out of the question.’
- ‘Some 20 years ago Midrand was an agricultural zone
- with smallholdings and farmlands.’
- ‘Like much of northern Portugal
- Bairrada is an area of agricultural smallholdings.’
- ‘Dispossession from small rural landholdings and the decline in the viability of many smallholdings in the 19th century led to widespread evictions.’
- ‘Just north of Angera
- along a road edged by smallholdings
- vineyards and the occasional rustic villa
- is the sleepy village of Ranco.’
- ‘I wonder if many farms or smallholdings were lost in New Orleans or don't they have that sort of thing there?’
- ‘In Byzantium
- tenant smallholdings quickly became the most widespread mode of cultivation
- with the decrease in the number of large estates and a near total eclipse of farming by the owners until the eleventh century.’
- ‘Percy Chapman & Son was established in 1886 by Percy Chapman when he was 16
- selling corn and seed to local smallholdings.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘In Barbados
- sugar cultivation hastened the rise of larger plantations and the decline in the number of smallholdings - and
- of course
- a growing proportion of the population was black and enslaved.’
- ‘His ‘hands-on’ experience comes from running the family-owned estate which comprises 11 tenanted farms
- ranging from 20-acre smallholdings up to 500 acres.’
- ‘This community typifies agricultural production in the State of Mexico which
- characterized by smallholdings
- has traditionally been one of the main maizeproducing states.’
- ‘The committee also recommended that physical security on farms and smallholdings
- a suitable replacement for the commando system
- proper policing and rural security also should be addressed.’
- ‘The left overs will be thrown to the masses who have smallholdings and are predominately Rail employees.’
- ‘They are a nuisance to poultry farms and smallholdings.’
- ‘Nearly all of the smallholdings in Spiti are subsistence farms; hand to mouth to belly and out again.’
- ‘Meanwhile
- deer are eating all the trees
- reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business.’
- ‘Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings
- whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings.’