Synonyms:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
Meaning: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Usage examples
Therefore he was the patron of husbandry.
Fan Ch'i requested that he might learn something of husbandry.
Husbandry disappeared almost entirely, and with husbandry the husbandman.
Act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
He also desired that instruments for husbandry might be brought him, and some wheat; but having prepared the ground and sown the wheat at the proper season, no sign of a blade, not to speak of ears, had sprouted from it by the summer.