Sentence examples for mainly for subsistence from inspiring English sources
The crofting system (small-scale tenant farming, mainly for subsistence) is still widespread.
Agriculture is practiced mainly for subsistence and employs less than one-tenth of the population.
Stock raising is the chief occupation, but islanders also engage in crofting (small-scale tenant farming, mainly for subsistence), fishing, and seaweed processing.
Under the pastoral system, milk production was mainly for subsistence (household) consumption and calf feeding.
A few cultivate crops during the rainy season, mainly for subsistence.
Farming is rain-fed with common crops including maize, beans, wheat, sorghum, millet, teff and cowpeas grown on a small scale mainly for subsistence.
Each toilet cover is sold for 500 naira (about US$2.50), an affordable amount for this community made up mainly of subsistence farmers.
The agricultural sector consists mainly of subsistence gardening, although some cash crops are grown for export.
The most important crop in the enclaves is jute and the enclave dwellers survive mainly from subsistence farming.
Bungokho surrounds Mbale municipality and the population consists mainly of subsistence farmers.
The residents of the study area are predominantly Dholuo speaking, and they derive their livelihood mainly from subsistence farming.
