As soon as families arrived to their plot, they knew they had been tricked. ... Thousands of farmers had to abandon their farms. ... They charged higher rates for farm products than any others. ... If the farmers raised their voice in protest, the railroad operators could easily let the farm products spoil, or pull something nasty. ... The government made it seem like moving to the West and owning a farm would be profitable. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Farming was labour intensive, with small-size plots. ... The six steps are as follows: (1) raising the purchasing price of grain and other farm products by twenty percent for planned purchase and another twenty percent for the crops produced in excess of the amounts required (see table 3); (2) reducing the producer prices and sales prices of major agricultural used industrial products by ten to fifteen percent between 1979 and 1980; 93) reducing and exempting rural taxes -- this represented a 500 million Yuan reduction in rural industrial and commercial consolidated duties and somewhere betw...

• Word Count: 2348
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Government has been offering incentives to its people to move to rural areas and set up farms. ... Unlike slash and burn where farmers move onto a new plot of land and do not return to this land, with shifting cultivation the soil is reused after a period of regeneration. ...

• Word Count: 2449
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School