This paper summarizes the socioeconomic variables that characterize agricultural production in a semi-subsistence rural economy. The findings confirm the agricultural practice in the Western Development Region of Nepal to be semi-subsistence, that is, farming in small areas that are not viable for large-scale commercialization, limited use of improved varieties of crops, production mainly for domestic or local consumption and livestock rearing in small herds, These features, which are characteristic of lack of modernization and commercialization, describe production in this economy better than any other socioeconomic variables.
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