smallholder
smallholder
Definition
small·holder (smôl′hōl′dər)
noun
Brit. a person who owns or works a smallholding
smallholder
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- organize: The first set applies to smallholders organized in cooperatives or other organizations with a democratic, participative structure.
- enable: Improved dermatophilosis control would enable smallholders and farmers relying on draft animals to raise their level of income and secure their sources of food.
- face: This is intended to reach a greater understanding of the current constraints facing smallholders and to improve the efficiency of markets for them.
- help: This information will help smallholders decide if they can justify the cost of treatment against potential cattle and productivity losses to disease.
- encourage: Farm forestry is another approach being tried, with projects geared to encouraging smallholders to grow more trees on their land.
Converse of subject
- grow: In contrast, coffee is mostly grown by Mayan smallholders.
Adjective modifier
- African: In addition, African smallholders have numbers on their side.
- many: Alternatives to Farming In the face of falling incomes and greater pressure on resources, many smallholders are looking for other sources of income.
- local: The Herkulu estate has a very small tea factory manufacturing black tea from green leaf grown on its own estate and by local smallholders.
- South: The economic impact of genetically modified cotton on South African smallholders: yield, profit and health effects.
- poor: ECF is thus a huge economic burden for poor smallholders.
- most: Life for most Rwandan smallholders is frugal and very hard work, just to get by.
Modifies a noun
- farmer: The average monthly income of a smallholder cocoa farmer in Ghana is less than £ 20.
- agriculture: However, most people in the country, and almost all the poorest, depend on smallholder agriculture for their livelihoods.
- grower: Kayonza is a co-operative of 4,000 smallholder growers - 14 % of whom are women.
- dairy: Many of the farmers who suffer losses are smallholder dairy producers.
- farming: A major project in the basin is aiming to irrigate 25,000 hectares of land for smallholder farming.
- coffee: A smallholder coffee farmer bends to inspect several bushes which have just caught his attention.
Noun used with modifier
- peasant: This is the hallmark of a peasant smallholder from where many design ideas originate.
Preposition: with
- plow: In lordship 1 plow; 1 villager and 3 smallholders with 1 plow.
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