Grower (other)
Grower may refer to: * Farmer * Sharecropper * Stockgrower (other) See also * * * Grow (other) Grow or GROW may refer to: * Growth (other), an increase in some quantity over time or a measure of some principal * GROW model, a technique for problem solving or goal setting * Graphical ROMable Object Windows, a windowing system that ...

Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farm land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies, a "farmer" is usually a farm owner (landowner), while employees of the farm are known as ''farm workers'' (or farmhands). However, in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land or crops or raises animals (as livestock or fish) by labor and attention. Over half a billion farmers are smallholders, most of whom are in developing countries, and who economically support almost two billion people. Globally, women constitute more than 40% of agricultural employees. History Farming dates back as far as the Neolithic, being one of the defining characteristics of that era. By the Bronze Age, th ...
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Sharecropper
Sharecropping is a legal arrangement with regard to agricultural land in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system. Some are governed by tradition, and others by law. The Italian ''mezzadria'', the French ''métayage'', the Catalan '' masoveria'', the Castilian ''mediero'', the Slavic ''połowcy'' and ''izdolshchina'', and the Islamic system of ''muzara‘a'' (المزارعة), are examples of legal systems that have supported sharecropping. Overview Sharecropping has benefits and costs for both the owners and the tenant. Under a sharecropping system, the landowner provided a share of land to be worked by the sharecropper, and usually provided other necessities such as housing, tools, seed, or working animals. Local merchants usually provided food and other supplies ...
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Stockgrower (other)
A stockgrower (or stock grower) is someone who raises livestock. Stockgrower may also refer to: *Cowman (profession) *Rancher *Cattle baron See also *Grower (other) *Stockman (other) Stockman may refer to: *Stockman (Australia), a person who looks after livestock on a station *Stockman (surname), a surname * Rancher, an owner of a North American livestock ranch operation *Cowman (profession), owner or operator of a cattle busi ... * Stockgrowers association * Lashing (ropework)#Stockgrower's lash {{disambig ...
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