0 a house, especially a farm, with the land and other buildings (eg barns) which belong to it, especially in the United States, Australia etc. -- ấp; trại
Intensive broiler management systems tend to deprive birds of free access to fresh pastures and succulent leguminous plants that are readily available to scavenging chicken around homesteads and villages.
The technology under discussion, that is the cultivation of forages on small upland or lowland plots near homesteads, seeks to generate feeds to supplement the diets of grazing cattle.
The development of a centralized state, which usurped the powers of lineages and homesteads, had a profound effect upon the way some women related to the rest of society.
Both men and women garnered more or less prestige according to their homestead's wealth in stock, number of children and overall reputation for successful management of their domestic affairs.
Homegardens may be defined as integrated, multi-structured, tree, crop and livestock systems that have been developed around tropical homesteads, often on quite small pieces of land.
Thus, the unit was set to encompass no more than 200 homesteads or nomad tents in rural communities, and from 1,000 to 2,000 in volost communities.
The rudiments of a selfimposed technical land-use plan were evident in the siting and layout of the new homesteads and arable plots.
Elders determined the opening date for each of these reserves and designated specific areas for homesteads.
