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marginal farmer

noun

Definitions

  1. A farmer with a bare subsistence level of income from their own land, sometimes working…

    A farmer with a bare subsistence level of income from their own land, sometimes working as an agricultural laborer.

    • In India, the percentage of marginal farmers among all farmers is nearly 70%.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see marginal, farmer.

    • First, in equilibrium the marginal (last) farmer finds that the cost of the last unit of fertilizer (i.e. the market price) is just equal to its benefit.
    • Farmers maximise expected profit under each technology and government maximises welfare. This determines when the marginal farmer chooses legal GM seed rather than illegal GM seed or conventional seed.

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