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  2. Farmer - Wikipedia

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    A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. [1] The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.

  3. Concerted cultivation - Wikipedia

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    This pattern of child rearing has been linked to an increase in financial and academic success. Negative considerations have included higher levels of adolescent psychopathology, [ 1 ] an overburdened sense of entitlement, potentially disrespectful behavior toward authority figures, lack of creativity, and the psychosomatic inability to play or ...

  4. Self-cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Self-cultivation or personal cultivation (Chinese: 修身; pinyin: xiūshēn; Wade–Giles: hsiu-shen; lit. 'cultivate oneself') is the development of one's mind or capacities through one's own efforts. [1] Self-cultivation is the cultivation, integration, and coordination of mind and body.

  5. Yangsheng (Daoism) - Wikipedia

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    Yǎng (養) means Nurture; rear, raise, foster; nourish; tend, care for, look after. Support by providing basic necessities; provide for; maintain, keep in good condition; preserve; watch over. Train; groom; educate in the proper way of carrying out one's responsibilities; cultivate. Nurse; treat so as to aid in recuperation. [1]

  6. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Grasses grow from the base of the leaf-blade, enabling it to thrive even when heavily grazed or cut. [ 31 ] In many climates grass growth is seasonal, for example in the temperate summer or tropical rainy season , so some areas of the crop are set aside to be cut and preserved, either as hay (dried grass), or as silage (fermented grass). [ 32 ]

  7. Subsistence agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Tony Waters, a professor of sociology, defines "subsistence peasants" as "people who grow what they eat, build their own houses, and live without regularly making purchases in the marketplace". [2]: 2 Despite the self-sufficiency in subsistence farming, most subsistence farmers also participate in trade to some degree.

  8. Cultivation - Wikipedia

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    Cultivation may refer to: . The state of having or expressing a good education (), refinement, culture, or high culture; Gardening; The controlled growing of organisms by humans

  9. Agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.