61.   Why not pay farmers to grow kenaf, a quick-growing fiber crop, as the raw material for paper?

62.   Are we prepared to pay our farmers a little more in return for a more secure and stable output of local rice?

63.   But Irvin said he knows of no other state that has held an auction to pay farmers not to irrigate.

64.   Equally unpopular is the suggestion to pay farmers more from national coffers.

65.   Ever since the New Deal, the federal government has used subsidies to prop up agricultural prices, paying farmers not to grow certain crops.

66.   For example, it pays dairy farmers a premium for milk to guarantee it comes from small family farms.

67.   Goodale also announced further changes that will give the board more freedom to sell grain and pay farmers more quickly.

68.   He also wants to expand a program known as the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to take environmentally sensitive land out of production.

69.   In Alor Star, State Agriculture and Information Committee chairman Ahmad Lebai Sudin said today Bernas must pay farmers the subsidy owed them in the next few days.

70.   In some areas, farmers will be paid to turn cropland into forest, Lei said.