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farming Definition

farm·ing (fär′miŋ)

adjective

of or for agriculture

noun

  1. the business of operating a farm ( & )
  2. the letting out to farm of land, revenue, etc.

farming Synonyms

farming

n.

agriculture, tillage, cultivation, husbandry, farm management, ranching, sharecropping, homesteading, plantation, horticulture, business of operating a farm, geoponics, agronomics, soil culture, agronomy, pomology, apiculture, viticulture, grazing, livestock raising, renting, leasing, operating, taking up a claim, hydroponics, tank farming, tray agriculture, tenancy, growing, cropraising.

Farming operations include: dressing the ground, fertilizing, manuring, plowing, tilling, disking, listing, harrowing, seeding, sowing, planting, drilling, cultivating, cultipacking, weeding, hoeing, transplanting, harvesting, reaping, gleaning, threshing, winnowing, haying, raking, tedding, binding, combining, stacking, breaking, shocking, husking, digging, picking, curing, strip farming, rotating crops, irrigating, irrigation, contour farming, milking, breeding, grazing, pasturing, herding, feeding, stocking, fattening, marketing, spraying, disinfecting, picking, selecting, grading, clipping, shearing.

farming Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • industrialize: At the time it seemed that only industrialized farming could bridge the gap.
  • mechanize: There has been some loss of features as a result of mechanized farming.

Adjective modifier

  • organic: Support organic farming by buying its produce whenever you can.
  • arable: The station is in a rural area with some arable farming in the immediate surrounding area.
  • intensive: The guiding motto of intensive farming is ' waste nothing, productivity is everything ' .
  • small-scale: Projects could include income generation activities such as small-scale farming, arts and craft, and small scale trading.
  • mixed: The trend away from mixed farming toward specialization reduced farmland biodiversity.
  • sustainable: The tax should be used to support sustainable farming.

Modifies a noun

  • community: Their village is a farming community in the Upper East region of Ghana.
  • industry: The farming industry cannot rely on social security for survival.
  • subsidy: It is of vital importance that farming subsidies, such as the CAP, are reformed promptly.
  • method: With a few in the pacific keeps hiking to see early farming methods.
  • lobby: Elected politicians dread taking on the farming lobby, except in New Zealand.
  • hamlet: It is situated in a sleepy farming hamlet with stunning views of the mountains, forests, fields and hills.

Noun used with modifier

  • subsistence: At present 75 per cent of the population is involved in subsistence farming.
  • dairy: Please note: the welfare aspects of dairy farming are not covered here.
  • livestock: The parts east and west of the central Rift were inhabited by peasants who practiced mixed crop and livestock farming.
  • salmon: By far the biggest impact of this would affect salmon farming.
  • sheep: Most of the book is devoted to sheep farming.
  • shrimp: In the Philippines, Oxfam is working with fishing communities whose livelihoods have been destroyed by intensive shrimp farming.