0 past simple and past participle of farm --
1 to use land for growing crops and/or keeping animals as a business: --
Among surveyed farmers, 84% had acquired their land through inheritance, while the remaining 16% farmed land under hired or borrowed lease agreements, or communal tenure.
Currently, more than 26 million ha are farmed organically worldwide2.
Four variables are used to describe the characteristics of the farmed plot and its soil quality.
Local families farmed the crop land, paying rent to an agent they thought represented the friars.
Thus, increases in farmed area do not represent a sound commercial investment.
Accordingly, much of the land in that part of the country which was farmed up to a generation ago is now covered with maturing forests.
The continuous variables (such as age, years in farming, total acres farmed, etc.) have been recoded as categorical variables for the purposes of analysis.
Nationally, organic product sales currently exceed $8 billion and there is an estimated 2.3 million acres farmed organically54-56.
