"marginal farmer" meaning in English

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        "A farmer with a bare subsistence level of income from their own land, sometimes working as an agricultural laborer."
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "(“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.",
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          "ref": "2015, Anne Jillian Arnold, A game-theoretic approach to modelling crop royalties. (thesis), University of Adelaide, page 62:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "sense": "farmer cultivating a very small plot",
      "word": "mikroviljelijä"
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