The farmers adopt a very forward-looking approach towards agriculture technologies.
More and more farmers are adopting the old method of using certain insects to control other insects as an alternative to spraying.
Out crawls a little boy who the farmer and his wife adopt as their own.
More and more farmers are adopting a cultivation technique that minimizes plowing.
The new policy is to encourage farmers to adopt "alternative livelihoods", such as wheat farming, while stepping up narcotics interdiction.
The effort failed and the farmers instead adopted a resolution stating that they would not endorse any candidate for governor.
We underestimated the speed with which farmers would adopt the green revolution.
In some areas these factors have to be reinforced by the provision of seasonal credit to enable farmers to adopt an innovation.
As farmers increasingly adopt the new high-yield strains of rice and wheat, they abandon their traditional varieties.
By May 1936, nearly 40,000 farmers had adopted his methods, "and 5.5 million acres were under new terraced and contour-listed cultivation.