Pinyin: nóng English Definition: peasant; to farm; agriculture; diligent (old); government field official (old) Chinese Definition: ①种庄稼，属于种庄稼的：务农。农业。农田。农产。农垦。农家。农忙。农民。农妇。农奴。 ②种庄稼的人：贫农。菜农。谷贱伤农。 ③姓氏。
International trade brought wealth to merchants and city bankers. They and those who had done well out of new farming methods provided capital in large quantities for industrialization.
"The contamination was our management problem. We must first resolve it without trying to pass the blame on to the farmers, or to society, or the country," he told Reuters.
