Everything about Farmer totally explained
A
farmer is a person who is engaged in
agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. This is a
way of life that had long been the dominant occupation of human beings since the dawn of civilization. Related, but much different, is
gardening.
Definition
The term for a farmer usually applies to a person who grows field crops, and/or manages
orchards or
vineyards, their products usually sold in a
market or, in a subsistence economy, consumed by the family or pooled by the community.
A farmer engaged in raising horses, cattle, or sheep for meat is usually referred to as a
rancher,
grazier (Australia) or
stockman. Special terms also apply to other people who
husband domesticated animals, namely
shepherd for
sheep farmers and
goatherd for
goat farmers. These terms almost always refer to livestock operations that use unmanaged rangeland and must import most, if not all, supplemental feed. When livestock are raised on well-managed pastureland and/or most silage is grown on-site, most practitioners refer to themselves as farmers. The term
dairy farmer is applied to those engaged milk production. A
poultry farmer is one who concentrates on raising
chickens,
turkeys,
domesticated ducks and
geese, or is involved in
egg production. A person who raises a variety of vegetables for market may be called a
truck farmer or
market gardener.
In the context of
developing nations or other pre-industrial cultures, most farmers practice a meager
subsistence agriculture – a simple
organic farming system employing
crop rotation,
slash and burn, or other techniques to maximize efficiency while meeting the needs of the household or community, using
saved seed which is native to the
ecoregion. In
developed nations however, a person using such techniques on small patches of land might be called a
gardener and be considered a
hobbyist. Alternatively, one may be driven into such methods by
poverty or, ironically--against the background of large-scale agribusiness--may become an organic farmer growing for discerning consumers in the
local food market. Historically, one subsisting in this way may have been known as a
peasant.
In developed nations, a farmer (as a profession) is usually defined as someone with an ownership interest in
crops or
livestock, and who provides land or management in their production. Those who provide only labor are most often called
farmhands. Alternatively, growers who manage farmland for an absentee landowner, sharing the harvest (or its profits) are known as
sharecroppers or
sharefarmers. In the context of
agribusiness, a farmer can be almost anyone – and can legally qualify under
agricultural policy for various
subsidies, incentives, and
tax relief.
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