Farmer 🧑‍🌾
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The farmer emoji, depicting a person in work clothes alongside green wheat or plants. This emoji is used to express farmers, agricultural workers, and farming activities. Common usage includes 'Want to be a farmer🧑‍🌾' 'Working in the fields🧑‍🌾' or 'Home garden🧑‍🌾' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Farmers are essential workers supporting humanity's food supply, working across diverse fields including rice cultivation, wheat farming, vegetable growing, orchards, livestock, dairy, poultry, and silk production. Recently, new farming styles have emerged including 'new farmers' transitioning from corporate jobs, 'half-farming half-X' lifestyles (half farming, half other work), organic farming, natural farming, IoT agriculture, smart farming, and vertical farming. While Japan faces challenges with aging farmers and successor shortages, young people are entering agriculture in growing numbers. The emoji is used in posts about rural relocation, countryside life, home gardens, community gardens, and harvest experiences.