11.   Progress and development in this fertile region have ground to a halt.

12.   APTV has a feature on this fertile region, and the refugees from the disputed territory who now have hopes of returning home.

13.   Drought damage to the crops is worst in fertile regions on the Volga and in the south, the Food and Agriculture Ministry said.

14.   Her first farm with her husband was in the fertile Masisi region of what is now northeastern Zaire.

15.   The capital is currently connected to the fertile northern Caspian Sea region by a narrow mountainous road.

16.   Three-fifths of the fertile Himalayan region is in Indian hands, the rest held by Pakistan.

17.   He has since extended his territory in the fertile Baidoa region, but is facing constant attacks from hostile factions.

18.   Although Bihac is a fertile farming region, Serbs have imposed severe restrictions on the delivery of aid for more than a year, gradually depleting local food reserves.

19.   Farmers from the normally fertile southeastern regions have for weeks been staging sometimes violent demonstrations demanding a transfer of water from the Tagus to the Segura river in Murcia.

20.   Somalia is experiencing drought and farmers in its fertile Lower Shebelle region in the south are expecting little harvest this year.