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The relationship between farmers, agriculture, and rural areas (rural areas)

Agriculture is a concept with ever-changing connotations. Traditional agriculture refers to farmland cultivation. The concept of tradition is used here from the perspective of labor content rather than labor methods. In fact, from an industry perspective, agriculture is not limited to farmland planting, but also includes forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production, and fishery.

Peasants are workers who are engaged in agriculture and make a living from agriculture. Traditional society has occupational classification methods of scholar, farmer, industry and businessman. The meaning of farmer is also broad.

Rural areas are societies where many peasant families live together. It has a different economic type, residential form and lifestyle than the city.

Farmers are regarded as the main body of rural social activities, and agriculture is a means for farmers to survive and communicate. The countryside is a place where farmers and their family members engage in economic, political, cultural and social activities. It is a community where they engage in communal life.