A person who owns or manages a farm on which they grow crops or raise livestock sufficient only for their own use, without any surplus for trade.
a rural subsistence farmer in the South
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- Concern is mounting in the country over continued low rainfall and its impact on the country's subsistence farmers and agro-industry.
- A subsistence farmer living in this rural area for most of his life, he supported himself working as a cook when he moved to the city.
- These groups warn that GM crops would threaten biodiversity and make subsistence farmers dependent on the biotech companies.
- Few families are wholly subsistence farmers, having relied traditionally on cash from the sale of surplus produce or from emigration of family members.
- The majority of the population are subsistence farmers, raising just enough crops and animals to meet their own needs.
- Traditional subsistence farmers are being displaced by cattle ranchers.
- Outside urban areas, Peruvians are largely subsistence farmers.
- Our system enables a subsistence farmer to move from growing a single crop on one plot of land to double cropping in the same season.
- Her husband — a violin player — worked as subsistence farmers.
- About 80 percent of the population here is comprised of subsistence farmers.