farmer
Example Sentences
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The French government said Monday it would authorise the shooting of wolves that attack livestock even outside protected enclosures, a policy shift welcomed by farmers, a powerful and increasingly disgruntled constituency.
From Barron's
Ethiopia, under Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, made fertilizer, quality seeds and technical agricultural advice available to small farmers.
The company said the plant will source about all of its hogs from nearby farmers in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota.
The deal announced this month has rattled India's powerful farmers' unions, who argue that cheap US imports would throttle local producers in a country where agriculture employs more than 700 million people.
From Barron's
Instead, it has driven farmers from their land, left produce to rot at roadblocks and blocked food imports except those from its allies in neighboring Rwanda, according to local traders and activists.
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