自じ作さく農のう

noun

owner farmer; independent farmer; farming on one's own land

Refers to a farmer who owns and cultivates their own land, as opposed to a tenant farmer. Also used for the practice of farming one's own land.

• 彼かれは自じ作さく農のうで、自じ分ぶんの土と地ちで米こめを作つくっている。

  He is an owner farmer and grows rice on his own land.

• 自じ作さく農のうとして生せい計けいを立たてるのは大たい変へんだ。

  Making a living as an independent farmer is tough.