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smallholder Definition

small·holder (smôlhōl′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.