marginal farmer – English noun declension

English noun forms of marginal farmer

Noun: marginal farmer
Singularmarginal farmer
Pluralmarginal farmers

Sample Sentences

  • In India, the percentage of marginal farmers among all farmers is nearly 70%.
  • First, in equilibrium the marginal (last) farmer finds that the cost of the last unit of fertilizer (i.e. the market price) is just equal to its benefit. [2007, Liam Brunt, “Where there’s muck, there’s brass”, in The Economic History Review, volume 60, number 2, Wiley Online Library, →DOI, →ISSN, page 357:]
  • (“Marginal” in an economic sense means “additional” or “incremental,” but has no normative or pejorative connotation.) At that point, adding more workers to a unit of farmland leads to less and less additional output, because the land cannot accommodate so many workers. […] No marginal product, or even a negative marginal product, results from the marginal farmer. [2015, Raj Bhala, Dictionary of International Trade Law, 3rd Edition (2015), →ISBN:]
  • Farmers maximise expected profit under each technology and government maximises welfare. This determines when the marginal farmer chooses legal GM seed rather than illegal GM seed or conventional seed. [2015, Anne Jillian Arnold, A game-theoretic approach to modelling crop royalties. (thesis), University of Adelaide, page 62:]

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