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marginal farmers

marginal farmers is the plural of marginal farmer.

Meaning of marginal farmer

Noun

marginal farmer (plural marginal farmers)

  1. 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: 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.2007, Liam Brunt, “Where there’s muck, there’s brass”, in The Economic History Review, volume 60, number 2, Wiley Online Library, →DOI, →ISSN, page 357

Questions about marginal farmers

What is marginal farmers the plural of?
Marginal farmers is the plural of marginal farmer.

Words near marginal farmers in the dictionary

  1. marginal costs
  2. marginal credit
  3. marginal distribution
  4. marginal distributions
  5. marginal farmer
  6. marginal farmers
  7. marginal note
  8. marginal notes
  9. marginal sea
  10. marginal seas
  11. marginal utilities

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