subsistence farming

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   farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing

   Broaderfarming

Questions about subsistence farming

What does subsistence farming mean?

subsistence farming means "farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing".

Is subsistence farming a common word?

subsistence farming is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.