61.   In Moriya, a northeastern Tokyo suburb, American Malls International has run into opposition from the Agriculture Ministry, which has decreed malls off-limits on designated farm land.

62.   In particular, inland shrimp farming is widely argued to be destroying farm land, and this problem will reduce production capacity for exports.

63.   In Russia, for example, President Boris Yeltsin wants to privatize farm land, but has been opposed at every turn by communists who dominate parliament.

64.   Increasing urban populations are limiting the expansion of farm land, Prem said.

65.   It could also be appropriate for the economic team to consider whether a tax should be imposed on idle farm land.

66.   It is the first time in recent years that the government has moved to place specific conditions in buying farm land on a foreign investor.

67.   Its economic slide was accelerated by floods this year and last that destroyed thousands of acres of farm land, resulting in an acute food shortage bordering on famine.

68.   Its economic slide was accelerated by floods this year and last that destroyed thousands of acres of farm land, resulting in a food shortage bordering on famine.

69.   It said then it would only pay for buildings and improvements on farm land seized originally from black peasants by white settlers.

70.   Its rains are washing away vast swaths of farm land.