This chapter describes the organization and performance of the subsistence sector of the economy of Lelu village in 1975–1976. It focuses on the characteristics that allow the coexistence of wage labor with subsistence production and thus prevents the complete proletarianization of the labor force. An increasing proportion of the economically active population is engaged in labor for a monetary wage, and an increasing proportion of the total goods and services consumed are purchased with money rather than produced with unpaid family labor. Adolescent boys take up part of the subsistence labor slack created by their father’s wage work. Thus, all households continue to produce and consume indigenous foods, and the conditions of the village’s agricultural economy allow this to occur. Sprayers for the application of pest- or fungus-control agents are available from the Agricultural Station, but seldom were used in 1975.