large-scale farmer

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These conflicts may involve longstanding claims to landownership or grazing access rights that clash with recently granted land concessions to large-scale farmers.
The two main types of agrarian producers are landowners, who are mostly large-scale farmers, and tenants, who conversely are mostly small-scale farmers.
For example, are small-scale farmers, who are often the targeted beneficiaries of participatory breeding projects in developing countries, more interested than large-scale farmers?
Which could be explained in a number of ways, including the likelihood that large-scale farmers have more opportunities to learn about improved varieties, as well as greater risk-bearing capacity.
Secondly, large-scale farmers (compared to small-scale farmers) may have access to more resources and laborers, resulting in their ability to devote more time to participatory breeding projects.
For instance privatisation and public sector retrenchment weakened the union movement, and small and large-scale farmers were split over the issue of liberalisation of agricultural markets.
Powerful ' outsiders ', such as corporate officials, large-scale farmers, sawmillers, and land speculators, are thought to be usually less aware of the importance of the local environment than the rural inhabitants.
The bulk of production is by medium and large-scale farmers.
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