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 between 500 million and 600 million in agricultural taxes; (4)...

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The portion of animals managed by the temple serves more than one purpose. Domesticated farm animals such as sheep and goats can be used as storage facilities; food such as grain, produce, and the like can be fed to the animals which thereby stores the resources "on the hoof.... Returning to the topic of animal sacrifices, the Eanna temple typically consumed anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 male lambs per annum. Given the sheer magnitude of animals, the temple hired out people who were joined to form administrative bureaus. These bureaus were responsible for organizing the influx of animals t...

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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. ...

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