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.
The reason is a well-established and regulated medical marijuana market, probably the most sophisticated in America with nearly 128,000 card-carrying patients, 730 shops and 1,100 cultivators, a third of which are in Denver alone.
Until recently Colorado's dispensaries were obliged to grow at least 70% of the cannabis they sold, and cultivators had to retail at least 70% of what they grew.
"We may be cultivators," a few reformists say, "but it might not be so bad if we acted a little more like hunters".
Mr Morya is a Murao, a high caste of cultivators.
The following is a comparison of the agricultural produce raised by one thousand families in France and England:—In France, it is calculated that on every thousand square yards of ground there are thirty-three cultinators: in England, only twenty-eight.
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.
But many Japanese could not get enough of them in the 1980s, paying to read again and again about how their long history as island rice-cultivators had set them apart from the rest of humanity.A decade of gloom has led some Japanese to give this implicit belief a different twist.
Acevez is a jimador, or cultivator of the blue Weber agave plants whose nectar is the lifeblood of the lucrative tequila industry.
