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词汇 subsistence-crop
释义 subsistence crop
noun[ C ]
 geography specializeduk /səbˈsɪs.təns ˌkrɒp/ us /səbˈsɪs.təns ˌkrɑːp/
a crop that people grow to use or eat themselves, rather than to sell口粮作物,自食自用的作物
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subsistence crop | Business English


subsistence crop
noun[ C ]
 NATURAL RESOURCES, ECONOMICSukus
a crop that people grow to use or eat themselves in order to keep alive, rather than to sell for profit:
The outlying farmers produce food for urban markets as well as subsistence crops.

Examples of subsistence crop


subsistence crop
When the price was up he concentrated on his rubber tree and neglected his subsistencecrop.
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A major subsistencecrop, barley is used as food and in the production of tella, a locally produced beer.
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Maize is a key subsistencecrop, on island's many small landholdings.
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The fields provided the people with a subsistencecrop of wheat, barley and lentils.
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The data also show that on subsistence crops most farmers used lower rates of organic fertilizer and almost no mineral fertilizer.
This is likely to be true even for risk-averse low-income farmers for whom subsistence crops are a major portfolio item.
The local farmer identified each of the lots, and provided assistance to participants that could not recall the harvest of subsistence crops.
The consumption value of the farmers' own subsistence crops should also be included in order to have a more realistic picture of their actual income levels.
Likewise, individuals who borrow land from nonrelatives have very little reason to keep it fallow, since borrowing is usually undertaken to obtain land on which to raise subsistence crops.
Most contemporaries complained about the poverty of sharecroppers, the prevalence of subsistence crops, the use of slow and inefficient draft oxen instead of horses and the poor working conditions.
Reports show that extensive damage was done to houses and public buildings, copra plantations and subsistence crops.
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That to some extent answers the point about subsistence crops.
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They need a plot of land of their own on which to produce subsistence crops.
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People would come in, people who are accustomed to growing subsistence crops.
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It is also a problem of the relationship between the cash commodities, such as groundnuts, and the subsistence crops.
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