Sentence examples for subsistence sector from inspiring English sources
Fiji has a market economy based primarily on tourism and agriculture, the latter including a substantial subsistence sector dominated by indigenous Fijians.
Economic development was pictured as a process whereby these underutilized resources of the subsistence sector would be drawn into cash production for the export market.
But the people in the subsistence sector were able to enjoy a certain customary minimum level of real income because the extended-family system of the rural society shared the total output of the family farm among its members.
Many potential Indonesian farmers in the subsistence sector are now reluctant to invest time and money in planting J. curcas since the profit from Jatropha products is much less compared to other agricultural commodities.
They remain in the subsistence sector where their economic contribution is not valued [ 27].
It is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, but Fiji still has a large subsistence sector.
While most commercial fisheries are focused on the west and south coasts, the east coast has few and smaller fisheries, but a high coastal population density, resulting in intense exploitation of inshore resources by recreational and subsistence sectors.
In fact, while the subsistence agricultural sector gains large numbers of people during the crisis, the mechanized agricultural sector sheds workers.
CCM's manifesto calls for doubling the access to drinking water by 2010.Overhauling the largely subsistence agricultural sector could be even more important.
The first and by far the most important is the subsistence smallholder sector, which produces most of the staple grains such as teff, wheat, barley, and oats (on the cooler plateaus) and sorghum, corn (maize), and millet (in warmer areas), as well as pulses such as chickpeas, peas, beans, and lentils.
There is in fact also some commercial activity in the subsistence farming sector, but it is not captured very well by the current economic statistics.
