subsistence crop

Maize is a key subsistence crop, on island's many small landholdings.

Assistance to small farmers who grew subsistence crops was rare, except in times of crisis.

The trees that had kept it whole were cut for fuel and to clear land for subsistence crops.

As producers, women are sometimes relegated to the production of subsistence crops on marginal land.

Subsistence crop agriculture and animal husbandry are the two major economic activities in the district.

Specifically, the main subsistence crops are wheat, corn and other cereals.

They planted cacao as a cash crop, together with various subsistence crops.

He said he planned to mix them with subsistence crops like rice and corn.

The fields provided the people with a subsistence crop of wheat, barley and lentils.

Early homesteaders grew mainly subsistence crops which would feed their own family and livestock.

Will the land remain as it is, lush dairy farms, or revert to its earlier subsistence crops?

Small family-type farms that grow subsistence crops are the basis of Togo's economy.

The main economic activity of the Bagwere is subsistence crop agriculture and animal husbandry.

Niger's economy is based largely on subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium deposits.

Chad's most important subsistence crops were sorghum, millet, and berebere.

A major subsistence crop, barley is used as food and in the production of tella, a locally produced beer.

The two groups also plant subsistence crops on tiny plots of land next to their homes and keep chickens and often a cow.

The main subsistence crops are millet, sorghum, and cassava.

In addition to export commodities, Cameroonian farmers produce numerous subsistence crops for family consumption.

Egypt's agricultural sector is still dominated by hoes, water buffaloes and subsistence crops.

Most of the people live by growing yams, cassava, plantains, and other subsistence crops on small plots.

The main subsistence crop is cassava.

Most of these early settlers were small farmers, growing a variety of subsistence crops in addition to the region's main cash crop, tobacco.

High waves of over 5 m (18 ft) struck the island, causing severe beach erosion and damaging subsistence crops.

What was originally intended by the French as a commercial cash crop had become a local subsistence crop by the 1980s.