| 词汇 | smallholding |
| 释义 | smallholding noun[ C ] UKuk /ˈsmɔːlˌhəʊl.dɪŋ/ us /ˈsmɑːlˌhoʊl.dɪŋ/ an area of land that is used for farming but is much smaller than a typical farm小块耕地 Farms & ranches collective farm country estate croft dairy farm dairyman farm farmhouse farmstead fish farm grange homestead kibbutz market garden non-cultivated non-farm ranch spread superfarm tea garden truck farm smallholding | Business Englishsmallholding noun[ C ] PROPERTY UK(alsosmall holding)uk /ˈsmɔːlˌhəʊldɪŋ/us a small piece of land used for farming: He moved to the country where he runs a smallholding growing vegetables and keeping a cow. smallholdernoun[ C ] Most smallholders in that part of the country were subsistence farmers. Examples of smallholdingsmallholding According to the bill, all land belonging to the state that was unoccupied or unregistered would be turned into smallholdings and given to agricultural labourers. Moreover, planters complained that larger estates were being forced to provide these services while smaller estates and smallholdings were exempted from these rules. This region was characterized rather by smallholdings of 0.5-4 hectares: 55 per cent of the households fell into this category. Rapid population growth has resulted in a marked reduction in the fallow period and the partitioning of farmlands into smallholdings. The smallholdings have a low level of specialization and labour productivity. In 1999, half were still living on a farm or smallholding, all of whom had at least one child living with them. A limited number of smallholdings are managed intensively for the production of specialty crops for domestic and export markets. There were twelve farmers of fifty acres or more in 1754, while fifty-two others had decent smallholdings or small farms. Parallelling this change is a significant increase in smallholdings, from 13 percent in 1967 to 33.2 percent of the cultivated land in 2001. An important proportion of this wage income is spent on agricultural inputs on the smallholding thereby allowing their survival as semi-proletarians. Most of these respondents had lived most of their lives on farms or smallholdings. However, as proved through proposition 5, it is precisely that situation which makes it difficult for smallholding farmers to adopt land management technologies. These households often combined their smallholding with proto-industrial activities and other sources of income, such as incidental wage labour, gleaning, begging and charity. They rented or bought smallholdings, exploited common rights, or set up as traders and craftsmen. As most cash bequests would have only allowed the recipient to buy a few acres, the average price per acre for smallholdings is perhaps more relevant. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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