11.   AFD assistant director Liu Kwei-kin said the department was encouraging farmers to use low-interest government loans to build the enclosed farms.

12.   But he said the government needs money to build roads and dig wells to encourage farmers who have lost drug incomes to plant substitute crops.

13.   Conservation groups, such as Pheasants Forever, and state agencies encourage farmers to plant buffer strips of grass along streams and use farming methods that help preserve topsoil.

14.   Effective measures to review the pricing mechanism for major agriculture products to encourage farmers to return to their farms and fully utilise idle land were also urged.

15.   It would also offer market prices for locally grown rice to encourage farmers holding on to their stocks to sell.

16.   The government is encouraging farmers to raise cats.

17.   To limit the effects of a capricious agricultural production, the Niger government has been encouraging farmers to irrigate their lands.

18.   Speculators ploughed into the soya market because of expectations that increased maize prices would encourage farmers to plant maize instead of soya.