91. The flooding has caused billions of dollars of damage to towns and farm land, mostly in the Czech Republic and Poland. 92. The government has increased spending on agriculture and ordered that farm land should be protected from development. 93. The federal agency strives to protect farm land through tactics ranging from buying easements to fighting erosion. 94. The government has built hundreds of apartments and provided food, low-interest housing loans and assistance in finding new farm land. 95. The government has described the occupations as a justified protest against the disproportionate ownership of the most fertile farm land by the white descendants of colonial-era settlers. 96. The Honduran Army took over one-third of the base, using the farm land to feed its troops. 97. The isolated communist country was hit by severe floods last summer that destroyed large stretches of farm land and left a half million people homeless. 98. The large and well-organized Landless Rural Workers Movement has promised to occupy idle farm land across the country to call attention to the need for agrarian reform. 99. The MST took to invading idle farm land to pressure the government to speed up agrarian reform. 100. The president says Russia needs a functioning land market, but communists and other hard-liners are opposed, saying that farm land in particular should stay under government control. |