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Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers.
Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts.
At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
Nevertheless, many of the former hunter-gatherers are still reliant on subsistence farming and making craftwork for tourists.
Sorghum, millet, maize, cowpeas, and black-eyed peas are the main subsistence crops.
Most people follow a subsistence way of life, growing food mainly for their own needs with little left over.
No agriculture or animal husbandry was practised, subsistence economies being based on hunting and fishing.
Experts say they're largely poorly run, barely capable of providing food at subsistence level for just the new plowers of the soil.
Overall, the price depression has predisposed subsistence farmers to serious problems of survival and financial constraints.
Some subsistence farmers earn cash from the sale of copra, cocoa, kava, manioc, pineapples, bananas, and fish.
We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
Some of the groups with the highest rates of diabetes also have the longest history of intensive agricultural subsistence.
A small coffee industry and subsistence farming counterbalance the poverty of the land reserves.
Women, the primary pool for secondary teachers, generally lived on these subsistence wages, supplemented by room and board with a local family.
But can low-tech subsistence agriculture improve people's quality of life better than the hated multinationals?
Zambian vernacular architecture is integrated with nature in an agricultural society of subsistence farming.
In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming.
It was only natural that the percussionists who earned their subsistence by drumming in temples gradually became a class by themselves.
The Inuit rely heavily on subsistence hunting of walruses, whales, seals, and other animals near the top of the food chain.
All civilized societies should provide aid to those unable to obtain the means of subsistence.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Their children had diminished no other's share, each had come with his or her own means of subsistence.
From what source, then, do you get your means of subsistence?
But there are a hundred ways of eking out subsistence in cheap countries, without trenching on morality.
All her subsistence was a little unpleasant and disagreeable broth, which I forced her to take against her will.
She has equal opportunity to achieve subsistence and equal pay for her labor.
After this their subsistence was procured exclusively by hunting.
Why did these people chose their embattlements so far away from all tillable land and sources of subsistence?
He exerts his physical powers because such exertion is necessary for his subsistence.
These were not men to take advantage of the impressions they produced, and to gain a subsistence by art and fraudulence.
Their rude energies and ruder arts had been chiefly devoted to subsistence.
Many are glad to give their services in exchange for their subsistence, without any consideration in hard money.
Is it the uncertainty of a subsistence in this new mode of life, that deters them from undertaking it?
Poor siciliano had to waste his power in occasional poems for his subsistence, and was thus unable to produce any lasting work.
Popes army was out of subsistence and forage, and the single-track railroad was inadequate.
The woman is denominated a sinner, because incontinency was her trade and the means of her subsistence.
But how avoid him while she had no other means of subsistence than working in an open shop?
These industrious animals abounded in all the mountain streams and watercourses, wherever there were willows for their subsistence.
On the whole, the centralist troops never fared poorly in subsistence.
How he contrived to eke out subsistence was difficult to conceive.
This mighty contrast thrust itself forward as a fair expression of the odds against which she was to begin her struggle for a subsistence.
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