It is now illegal to hunt fur seals, except for an exemption allowing Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos to continue to hunt at a subsistence level. |
Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers. |
We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger. |
Most people support themselves through subsistence farming, growing rice, yams, cassava, bananas, and palm oil nuts. |
Concern is mounting in the country over continued low rainfall and its impact on the country's subsistence farmers and agro-industry. |
Women, the primary pool for secondary teachers, generally lived on these subsistence wages, supplemented by room and board with a local family. |