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      [Noun]  | "subsistence farming" 


      1: farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale

      2: farming or a system of farming that produces a minimum and often inadequate return to the farmer —called also subsistence agriculture


      Origin: 1892 ;

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       [ "subsistence farming" ]

      1: Agriculture that provides food to the farmer and his/her family, with little or no product for trade. The practitioners are very susceptible to famine.

        * e.g.,  ... The Ethiopian practice of subsistence farming, is almost suicidal. 

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