In 1978, the per-capita net income of a farming family was only 91.64 Yuan (equivalent to $10.29 American today), of which 72.26 Yuan was distributed in food produce and only 19.38 Yuan in cash. ... 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 ex...

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The purpose of the New Deal was to provide relief (providing jobs for the unemployed and to protect farms from foreclosure), recovery (to get the economy back into high gear), and reform (to regulate banks, to abolish child labour and to conserve farm lands), and overall to save capitalism and bring back faith in the American economy. ... Besides the free food, clothing and shelter given to these men which would help them live comfortably, this relief effort most importantly helped provide a source of income for these employed men as well as their family back home. 250 000 young Americans ha...

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Only 15% of Kenya's total land area is sufficiently fertile to be farmed, and only 7% can be classified as first class land. ... As the desert encroaches from the north, pressure is mounting for Kenya to implement reforestation plans and to maximize productivity in existing farms. ... However, as the concept of wage employment was alien to them, they did not avail themselves for employment in the settlers' farms. ... That school's primary purpose was to promote evangelism but as education developed it became an instrument to produce skilled labour for the settlers' fa...

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Farms were given back to the farmers and they were now free to plan production, distribution, which lead to huge increases in productivity, surplus income and output. ... Permission to start small businesses such as restaurants and shops were now given to families and individuals. ...

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Most resided in transit camps and temporary shelters or with family members although the government claimed in 2012 that all those displaced have now been resettled. ... The agriculture and fisheries were also badly affected by this dislocation of communities along with the mining of fields and forests and restriction to lagoons and the sea, death of farm animals, minimal service extensions and harvesting and marketing. ...

• Word Count: 2077
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