part-time farmer

He also has more than 13 years experience as a part-time farmer.

Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult.

Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future.

Some of the part-time farmers with their own businesses used the farm as a base for that business.

Fully 85 percent of the rice is grown by part-time farmers.

He himself also a part-time farmer and works in the fields during the weekends.

However, almost all the part-time farmers had specialised in one or, at most, two enterprises.

Part-time farmers enjoy average family incomes 40 percent higher than those of urban workers.

A quarter of the part-time farmers hoped to become full-time in the future.

The time factor was a problem both to full-time and part-time farmers but for entirely different reasons.

I was never much more than a full-time factory worker and a part-time farmer.

Here two out of every three farmers/part-time farmers did not know about training activities.

Away from the big employers most of the part-time farmers found employment with small rural businesses.

Areas with predominantly family or part-time farmers would need close consultation in the provision of training.

The markets were not so much of a problem for the many part-time farmers who had a good non-farm income.

This obviously made much greater demands on part-time farmers as they had to transport feed every day.

Just over a half of the part-time farmers said that they used or would use off-farm income for the farm.

However, Table 25 shows that this is too general an assumption to make, particularly in areas where family and part-time farmers predominate.

Because of the demands on time many part-time farmers were over-capitalised in machinery.

There were no part-time farmers in the survey.

More full-time farmers than part-time farmers in the study would have liked extra land.

Most of the part-time farmers in that area worked in Teesside, many at management level.

Proper training in this field could have significant benefits to the family farmer and part-time farmer.

The people who operate Christmas tree farms range from full-time growers to part-time farmers.

With part-time farmers the lack of labour was mostly a problem for those on shift work or those who had difficulty in getting time off.