subsistence farms
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Subsistence farms produce food primarily to feed the farming family rather than for sale.
What surplus exists may be traded locally, but the operation aims at self-sufficiency, not profit.
The term often implies small scale, traditional methods, and economic vulnerability: Drought devastated the subsistence farms in the region.
Subsistence farming remains common in developing countries.
- smallholdingSmall cultivated land parcel
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
- harvestGathering mature crops
- cropsCultivated plants for harvest
cash crops · self-sufficient · food security · tillage · hoe · plow · arable land · maize · cassava · drought · poverty · dirt floor · rural · village · livestock · chickens · goats · family
- Depression EraGreat Depression, Hooverville, breadline, dust storms, soup kitchen
- dryland farmingfallow, rainfed, water harvesting, erosion control, conservation tillage
- land taxationland value, property valuation, property assessment, tax collection, tax rates
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Large profit-oriented agricultural operations
agribusiness · industrial farms · plantation · factory farms · corporate farms
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Large-scale mechanized agriculture operations
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