1.   Presumably, that would not include idle farmland that might be restored to wetlands.

2.   A new land law will allow the government to expropriate large tracts of idle private farmland, President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday.

3.   A new land law will allow the government to expropriate large tracts of idle private farmland, President Hugo Chavez said.

4.   Again, the talk about increasing agricultural productivity on idle farmland acquired for speculative and other non-productive purposes should be seriously considered by the government.

5.   Fedecameras says a new land reform law gave the state too much discretion in determining whether idle private farmland should be confiscated.

6.   Large landowners and ranchers fear that the law could open the way for expropriations and the heavy taxes on idle farmlands.

7.   The group, which says the government is too slow in handing idle farmland to peasants, led a two-month protest march on the capital Brasilia.