81.   The failure to pay farmers promptly for their crops has undermined efforts to expand grain production.

82.   The water situation is so critical in parts of southwestern Georgia that members of the state House have voted to pay farmers who stop irrigating during severe droughts.

83.   Under the current system, farmers are paid by the EU so that they can keep the cost of goods high even when market prices fall.

84.   Instead, Brussels proposes to pay farmers to manage land responsibly and provide other forms of support to rural communities.

85.   Bai also pledged farmers would be paid in cash for their crops this summer, after widespread issuing of IOUs last year sparked several violent protests in the countryside.

86.   British farming is unsustainable and major changes are needed, including paying farmers to develop the countryside instead of producing crops, a report for the government said Tuesday.

87.   Farming subsidies in eastern Europe are scarcely one-fifth of what western governments pay their farmers.

88.   The refinery pays the farmers for the harvest even if it is unusable, the sources added.

89.   Many proposals have been aimed at reducing direct and production subsidies in favor of paying farmers to responsibly manage land or of supporting rural communities through other mechanisms.

90.   Puech also said the French government had formally asked Steichen to review set-aside quotas, whereby the EU pays farmers to take farmland out of production.