Small farmer definition

Small farmer means a cultivator with an un-irrigated land holding up to two hectares or with an irrigated land holding up to one hectare, but more than the holding of a marginal farmer.
Small farmer means a cultivator with an un-irrigated land holding upto two hectares or with an irrigated land holding upto one hectare, but more than the holding of a marginal farmer.
Small farmer means a farmer whose farming operations do not exceed the size of holding as prescribed by the Minister;

Examples of Small farmer in a sentence

  • The project “Increasing Food Security and Promoting Licit Crop Production and Small Farmer Enterprise Development in Lao PDR and Myanmar (XSPK26)” is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation (BMZ).

  • These comprise of Cooperative model, Small Farmer Cooperative Limited (SFCL) model, Grameen Bank model, and Community based Organizations (COs) or Self-Help Groups (SHGs) model.


More Definitions of Small farmer

Small farmer means a person whose principal means of livelihood is income derived from agricultural land and who holds and personally cultivates, or who cultivates as a tenant or sharecropper or mortgagee with possession, agricultural land which does not exceed in extent,-
Small farmer means a farmer cultivating (as owner or tenant or share cropper) agricultural land of more than 1 hectare and up to 2 hectares (5 acres).
Small farmer means a person who holds whether as owner, tenant or mortgagee with possession or partly in one capacity or partly in another capacity not more than two and a half acres of ‘A’ class of land specified in part ‘A’ of Schedule I of the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 (Karnataka Act 10 of 1962) or not more than five acres of any other class of land.
Small farmer means a person who holds, whether as owner, tenant or mortgagee with possession or partly in one capacity or partly in another capacity a land, as defined for the purpose of availing benefits of RDA Schemes in Goa;
Small farmer. : means a cultivator with an un-irrigated land holding of more than one hectare and up to two hectares or with an irrigated land holding of more than half hectare and up to one hectare or combination of both on same principle
Small farmer means an owner of or registered leaseholder of less than sixteen acres;
Small farmer means a cultivator with an unirrigated land holding up to two hectares or with an irrigated land holding up to one hectare.