"farmer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were sedentary slash-and-burn farmers, which requires periodic relocation as soil becomes exhausted, and were also hunters, fishers and gatherers.
- They are nomadic hunters and slash-and-burn farmers, whose basic crop is manioc, an edible root and the mainstay of their diet.
- Later, in the Brazilian rain forests, it was lumbermen, miners, then slash-and-burn farmers.
- The uncontrolled cutting of timber by the slash-and-burn farmers (kaingineros), is reducing the inflow of water to the lakes and causing a fall in water levels.
- It also calls for the introduction of land reform outside the forests, to stem the flow of landless settlers, such as "slash-and-burn" farmers, on to tribal people's land.
- A secondary problem is created by fires set by slash-and-burn farmers, who often travel deep into virgin jungle along roads cut by loggers.
- Today only 5 percent has survived loggers and slash-and-burn farmers.
- The terrain made farming difficult and only slash-and-burn farmers tilled mountain plots to eke out a living.
- They are usually hunter/gatherers or slash-and-burn farmers.
- Most of the forest people are slash-and-burn farmers.
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