05/03/2025
Before you embark on agricultural entrepreneurship, you need to differentiate between Agronomist, Farmer, Peasant, and Cultivator.
📌Agronomist:
An agronomist is a professional who specializes in agronomy, the science that studies soils and plants in order to improve agricultural production. Agronomists generally work in research, agricultural consultation, natural resource management, and agricultural development.
📌 Farmer:
A farmer is a person who cultivates the land or raises animals to get food resources or raw materials from it. Farmers may own or operate farmland to produce crops, fruits, vegetables, cattle, or other agricultural products.
Agriculture does not only refer to the person who cultivates the land but also the person who grows on that same land (beekeeper, avionkeeper, farmer, farmer, etc.) ).
The farmer is, if we take historical sources, one of the first professions in the world, which consisted of hunting, putting seeds in the soil to germinate and harvest fruits. This activity breeds sedentary. In ancient Greece, agriculture accounted for about 80% of the economy.
📌 Countryman :
The term "countryman" is less common and may vary by region. It is sometimes used interchangeably with "farmer" to refer to a person who works the land to produce food. In some contexts, the term "countryman" can also refer to someone living in rural areas.
📌Cultivator:
A cultivator is a person who works and maintains the land to grow crops on it. The cultivator is responsible for preparing the soil, sowing seeds, maintaining crops, protecting them against pests and diseases, and