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: --
It is also a problem of the relationship between the cash commodities, such as groundnuts, and the subsistence crops.
People would come in, people who are accustomed to growing subsistence crops.
They need a plot of land of their own on which to produce subsistence crops.
That to some extent answers the point about subsistence crops.
Reports show that extensive damage was done to houses and public buildings, copra plantations and 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.
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.
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.
