0 a crop that people grow to use or eat themselves, rather than to sell
1 a crop that people grow to use or eat themselves in order to keep alive, rather than to sell for profit:
When the price was up he concentrated on his rubber tree and neglected his subsistence crop.
A major subsistence crop, barley is used as food and in the production of tella, a locally produced beer.
Maize is a key subsistence crop, on island's many small landholdings.
The fields provided the people with a subsistence crop of wheat, barley and lentils.
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.
