11.   The seminar also called on governments to support small farmers, in order to help reduce the drift to the cities.

12.   Thus, small traders, indigenous producers and small farmers have to depend upon friends, relatives, landlords and money-lenders for loans.

13.   Among other things, he vowed that the Packers and Stockyards Act would be enforced to prevent price discrimination by packers against small farmers.

14.   Ana de Ita of the Mexican Center for Rural Change Studies points out that the sharing and stockpiling of seeds are customary among Mexican small farmers.

15.   And like the peanut and sugar programs, most of the benefits go not to the small dairy farmer but to the big guys.

16.   And nothing the Pork Producers does will convince him that the group is looking out for him and other small farmers.

17.   And the big plantation owners have hurried to distance themselves, pointing their fingers at small farmers and wood thieves.

18.   And what goes for ordinary taxpayers goes double for small farmers.

19.   And, he said, time is running out for the small farmer who depends on government loans to stay afloat from year to year.

20.   Another is because as a small farmer he cannot export his coffee directly.