subsistence farming

How To Use subsistence farming In A Sentence

• We will not be reduced to subsistence farming and exporting fish and chips if the banks leave. Times, Sunday Times
• It takes around two or three generations of sweatshops to go from the ancient pattern of peasant subsistence farming, with its characteristic grinding toil for women to where the country is now.
• In Belize, they are the poorest of the poor, most living by subsistence farming.
• Nevertheless, many of the former hunter-gatherers are still reliant on subsistence farming and making craftwork for tourists.
• We lived from subsistence farming, growing sweet potatoes, corn, some sugarcane, and ginger.
• At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
• Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
• Andrew Rice makes a good point when he says that foreign investors can bring in new technologies and boost the productivity of underused land to feed not only foreign investors but Africans as well (though the question that follows is whether foreign investors view subsistence farming as "underuse" of land). Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
• Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.
• Cities draw people away from subsistence farming, which is ecologically devastating, and they defuse the population bomb.