Industry refers to manufacturing activities in making means of production, means of subsistence and processing semi-manufactured goods by making use of natural resources.

工业，是指采用自然物质资源，制造生产资料、生活资料，对农产品、半成品等进行加工的生产事业。

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In turn, rather more than half of that was awarded in six-hectare lots to subsistence farmers from the semi-arido.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

If a mere fraction of the public money spent on big irrigation projects were spent on small-scale works in the semi-arido, he argues, subsistence farmers could survive the drought with their animals and livelihoods intact and with no need to beg for aid from the local political bosses.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

In practice it has done nothing for the subsistence farmers of the semi-arido.

ECONOMIST: Brazil