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What is another word for agriculturists?

Pronunciation: [ˈaɡɹɪkˌʌlt͡ʃəɹˌɪsts] (IPA)

Agriculturists are professionals who specialize in the science and practice of farming. They work in various capacities including crop production, animal husbandry, horticulture, forestry, and natural resource management. Some synonyms for Agriculturists include farmers, growers, ranchers, agronomists, horticulturists, and agriculturalists. Farmers cultivate crops, while ranchers breed and raise livestock. Agronomists study the soil and crops, while horticulturists focus on the cultivation of plants. Foresters manage forests and natural resource managers work to preserve the environment. All these professionals contribute to ensuring food security and economic development by employing sustainable practices that promote soil health and biodiversity, while minimizing the impact on the environment.
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  • The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
    Richard Cobden
  • I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.
    Joseph Hume
  • A series of things have come up since then that have made the problem incredibly grimmer…. The ozone hole… acid rain…. Three hundred million people have starved to death since THE POPULATION BOMB was written. The famines weren’t as large as agriculturists thought they would be… due to the spread of… Green Revolution technology into the poor countries…. What makes us nervous right now is that we’re faced with again having to do something desperate to increase our food production greatly.... In 1965 we knew exactly how to do it, the question was could we deploy it fast enough—Today we have nothing left to deploy—that’s very scary.... As a species we’re not able to live on our income; we’re living on our capital, our deep rich agricultural soils are being destroyed, water is being overpumped, and our biodiversity, our life support system—we’re already far beyond what we can support.
    Paul R. Ehrlich

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