31. It also reported that average income in 14 regions of Russia is below the ministry-defined subsistence level . 32. Unemployment soared in recent months, and inflation cut the purchasing power of most Nigerians to subsistence levels . 33. Such figures detail only the subsistence level . 34. They follow subsistence level agriculture, though in recent times they are progressively using modern methods of agriculture. 35. Since independence in 1976, per capita output has expanded to roughly seven times the old near-subsistence level . 36. Laos is a largely agricultural nation, with most of its farmers still surviving at a subsistence level . 37. The cottier existed at subsistence level because of high rents and the competition for land and labour. 38. Attempts to promote agricultural exports had limited success, however, and most production remained on a subsistence level . 39. The average monthly salary of 184 lei ( dlrs 40 ) is half of the subsistence level . 40. Their isolation and lack of resources greatly limits economic development and confines agriculture to the subsistence level .