A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.

连续歉收使得这个小农场主陷入了贫困境地。

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It was, according to Webb, the colonial governors who favored the small farmer, opposed the plantation system, and tried through taxation to break up large holdings of land.

据韦伯称，正是殖民地总督亲善小农，反对种植园制，并通过税赋来打破土地的大规模拥有。

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They saw a way to represent their party of bankers and businessmen as the party of the working man and the small farmer.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

You have the small settled farmer in the more fertile areas.

在土地肥沃地区有一些定居的农民。

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For a small farmer, replacing a bucket with a pump can lead to cultivating a wider variety of crops and creating work for family and neighbors.

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Helping with seed, advice, fertiliser, and offering the small farmer the ability to band together to counterweight the market power of the large buyers.

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For all three the arrangement is like the one that governs chicken production in the U.S., with a giant corporation supplying inputs to a small farmer and then picking up the output at harvest time.

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Ethanol was making investors giddy last year when oil prices were high, corn prices were low and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) and small farmer cooperatives were reaping huge profits distilling corn mash into fuel.

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