The village once had a Commons, where the peasants cultivated their own strips of land, the name 'common' still survives as a field name.

We were told it had similar terrain to Dajai, a model area where peasants cultivated fruit trees and crops in rocky mountainous conditions.

But local peasants cultivate only up to the invisible borders of the old burying grounds.

The peasants cultivate potatoes, wheat, barley, broad bean and oat.

The peasants cultivate maize, wheat, barley and potatoes on the stark, steep slopes.

As late as the 18th century, Russian peasants died of famine rather than cultivate the spud.

By mid-1946 Albanian peasants were cultivating more land and producing higher corn and wheat yields than ever before.

In 1718, 29 peasants cultivated the fields, with 2 more owning a small sawmill.

He would like to urge peasants to cultivate physic nut plants on a commercial scale with major aims for emergence of industrial agriculture system, for fulfilling rural electricity supply and energy needs, for supporting rural areas development and import substitute economy.

Due to the local conditions, the peasants there had long cultivated tobacco and, to a lesser extent, paddy.