A housing cooperative, or co-op, is a legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.
An alternative to leasing farmland is custom farming. The. custom operator agrees to perform all the machine opera-. tions on the ownerâs land in exchange for a set fee or rate. The landowner pays for all seed, chemicals, and other in-. puts, and keeps all of the crop and commodity payments.
Examples. Subsistence Farming. Subsistence farming is a form of farming in which nearly all the crops or livestock raised are used to maintain the farmer and his family, leaving little, if any, surplus for sale or trade.Barnett et al.ubsistence agriculture is a labor-intensive method of cultivating food crops, which is sufficient for the farmer and his family. The production is done on a small scale which is adequate to feed a small population. Self-sufficiency is primarily focused in subsistence farming, due to which surplus food is reduced.