A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farmland or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies, a "farmer" is usually a farm owner (landowner), while employees of the farm are known as farm workers. However, in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land, or crops or raises animals by labor and attention.

भरतदेश: ग्रामाणां दश:।अत्र कृषिकर्म एव प्रधान:।सः सकलस्य देशस्य अन्नदाता भवति।सः वृष्टयतपन् अविगणय्य क्षेत्रे आदिनं कर्य करोति।