subsistence crop in a sentence
Examples
- Niger's economy is based largely on subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium deposits.
- In some areas, some species of monkey are considered agricultural pests, and can cause extensive damage to commercial and subsistence crops.
- By 1891 they had established a pasture paddock and had planted bananas ( the butts obtained from Redland Bay ) and subsistence crops.
- Small cultivation is spread over the district but is limited to subsistence crops of maize, sorghum, beans, peas, and melons.
- These Corvinos survived a meagre existence, dedicating their venture to subsistence crops and grazing sheep and / or goats, along with fishing offshore.
- Members of the western group, in addition to cultivating subsistence crops and practicing animal husbandry, gathered gum arabic for sale in local markets.
- The rapes occur on roads leading out of town to the fields where the women raise subsistence crops as well as in their homes in town.
- In the Cibao Valley, the nation's richest farmland, peasants supplemented their subsistence crops by growing tobacco for export, mainly to Germany.
- The destruction of their subsistence crop seemed the final blow after centuries of political repression and economic exploitation by Protestant landowners under the protection of the British.
- The area has few paid jobs, and deforestation has led to flooding that may wipe out subsistence crops like beans, as it did last spring.