| Some 90 percent of the population live off the land, mostly as subsistence farmers. |
| The rest of its people are Indians, mainly Quechua and Aymara who are subsistence farmers in the mountains. |
| Figures suggest that the minimum amount of money needed for subsistence is on the rise in real terms. |
| By the late 1990s, about four-fifths of the population made their living doing subsistence agriculture in the jungles and highland forests. |
| They were weary of working twelve hour days, seven days a week for subsistence wages. |
| Concern is mounting in the country over continued low rainfall and its impact on the country's subsistence farmers and agro-industry. |
