Answer:
Subsistence farming – the cultivation of crop plants and the keeping of animals to ensure self-sufficiency – is something states, seed producers, agro chemical concerns, and world trade organizations consider backwards today – inefficient and a cause of poverty in the rural areas of the South.
1,000 years later...
But beginning in the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution would raise living standards and spur growth.
Congruent segments are segments that have the same lenght
<span>Their progress and wealth is highly dependent on the harvests, and
the price of grain. They probably have to import some industrial
products and if they had a bad year (weather, other catastrophies, poor
technology) they can't get the necessary amount of industrial products
in exchange for their surplus e. g. in grain. </span>
