1. Pumped water out of the field as part of the land reclamation program designed to provide farmers with more farmland. 2. Corn prices plunged as warm weather and generous rains over the weekend and extending into this week provide farmers with excellent planting conditions. 3. Instead, they urged government officials to provide farmers with assistance in complying with new environmental standards. 4. Instead, the law provided farmers with government payments that were scheduled to shrink over several years. 5. The growing of poppy plants has been banned in Afghanistan but little has been done to provide farmers with replacement income. 6. The idea is to provide local farmers with trees to grow for firewood, construction and selling, leaving the monarch forests intact. 7. Those indicted were farm contractors, who serve as middlemen providing farmers in the U.S. with low-cost labor from Mexico, Guatemala and other countries. 8. But while the military is being strengthened, Wellstone says there is no firm plan to provide coca farmers with alternative livelihoods. 9. CAVYSA provides the farmers with a steady customer for their products, Randall noted. 10. For instance, it is encouraging vegetable growing in padi areas by providing padi farmers with the necessary inputs and assistance. |
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