farming

engaged in or concerned with agriculture years of drought had a devastating impact on the region's farming communities Synonyms agrarian, agriculturalRelated Words agronomic, arable [British], monocultural; bucolic, georgic, pastoral, pastoralist; garden; aquacultural, arboricultural; country, rural, rustic (also rustical), villaticNear Antonyms metro, metropolitan, urban; industrial, industrializedAntonyms nonagricultural

the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock since an ancestor settled there in the 19th century, farming has been the only occupation for six generations of the family Synonyms agriculture, husbandryRelated Words cultivation, culture, farmwork, gardening, horticulture, tillage; agribusiness, agroecology, agronomy; agroforestry, arboriculture, pomology; aquaculture (also aquiculture), hydroponics; animal husbandry, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism; sharecropping