The word 'cultivator' is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The farmer used a cultivator to prepare the soil for planting his crops.
The soil around existing plants is cultivated (by hand using a hoe, or by machine using a cultivator) to destroy weeds and promote growth by increasing soil aeration and water infiltration.
Acevez is a jimador, or cultivator of the blue Weber agave plants whose nectar is the lifeblood of the lucrative tequila industry.
An innovative chilli cultivator called Fabian Garcia is credited with producing the state's first commercially viable variety around 1922.Chilli gets its heat from capsaicin, and heat is measured in Scoville heat units (SHU), named for Wilbur Scoville, a scientist who tried to quantify a chilli's bite.
See cultivator; harrow; plow.
Blood sacrifice is linked not with the cultures of the hunter gatherers but with those of the cultivators; its origin is in the ritual killing of the archaic cultivator cultures, which, in turn, is grounded in myth.
More generally in north India, zamindar denoted the cultivator of the soil or joint proprietors holding village lands in common as joint heirs.
A mounted set of sweeps provided with power lift and depth regulation is often called a field cultivator.
Métayage, Italian mezzadria, type of land tenure whereby the cultivator (métayer) uses land without owning it and pays rent in kind to the owner.
The third group, the inland shifting cultivators, plant swiddens fields that are cleared, cultivated for a few seasons, and then abandoned for several years to allow the soil to regenerate in areas where the climate will not support wet-rice farming.
These are not mutually exclusive occupations, since most cultivators also keep animals and most pastoralists cultivate grains when possible.
At a mid-harvest meeting of sugar cultivators and producers, Dr Fidel Castro's elder brother Ramón, who controls sugar cultivation in Oriente province and knows what he is talking about, railed at the farmers' dependence on mechanisation: "If there is no jeep, take a mule," he stormed, pumping his arms in unconscious imitation of his younger brother.
