Refers to farming or agriculture as an activity, field, or way of life. The standalone noun 農 is somewhat formal or compact; 農業 is the more ordinary full word in many contexts.
My grandfather has farmed in this village for many years.
At this university, you can study the relationship between agriculture and food.
能 (ability/Noh theatre) and 農 (agriculture, as in 農業) share the same reading のう but have unrelated meanings, so learners can mishear or misread one for the other.
Sino-Japanese のう reading of 農, a kanji conventionally associated with farming and agriculture. No more specific historical derivation is asserted here.
crops; agricultural produce
agricultural cooperative; farmers' co-op
dairy farming
farming; agriculture; cultivation
male farmer; farmhand; peasant
farm work; agricultural labor
farming method; agricultural technique
agriculture and fisheries
faculty of agriculture; department of agriculture
agricultural administration; agricultural policy
agricultural science; agronomy
serf
agricultural products; farm produce
farm road; agricultural road
farming; agriculture
agricultural affairs
farming implement; farm tool
agricultural machinery and equipment
agricultural university
farming; agriculture
taking up farming; entering agriculture