Word: farmlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million to Mexico's national development agency to expand municipal water systems in the Yucatan Peninsula and irrigate 53,000 acres of farmland in arid central and western sections...
...April 19) and the chemical spray guns have finished their hissing attack on bug and weed, the most modern cotton fields in the U.S. are likely to resound to an unexpected and old-fashioned racket. Day after day, nearly a million geese honk their way across the carefully tended farmland. In a time of rising costs and declining markets, cotton growers are showing an expanding enthusiasm for an antiquated agricultural technique known as "cotton goosing...
...years ago, Castro bragged that his land-reform program would rest on two principles: "The land should belong to those who work it," and "Those who have no land must have some." As a starter, he divided 13% (more than 3,000,000 acres) of Cuba's total farmland into 630 cooperative farms. Fortnight ago, Castro conceded that the land distribution to peasants had been a flop, partly because it encouraged too much private initiative...
...succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...
...poverty-stricken south, income levels are still only half as high as in the industrial north, but Communist strength south of Naples is slipping. More than $2 billion in new industrial and agricultural developments in the south has created more jobs, raised the productivity of long-arid farmland. Foreign investors continue to treat Italy as a good risk; U.S. Steel is building a $16 million plant in partnership with the Italians. The unemployment rate is 16% lower than last year, wages have jumped 10%, and domestic sales are up 17% over...