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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.
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 ...
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.
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]
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 ]
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.
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
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.