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Venezuela's farm seizures show little results
What?This vast ranch used to be filled with grazing herds of cattle, but the green pastures are now overgrown with weeds and dotted with patches where poor farmers grow corn and beans.
Where?EL CHARCOTE, Venezuela
Who?President Hugo Chavez's agrarian
When?3/17/09
Why?turning a country with food shortages and runaway inflation into one that could feed itself. But since troops and peasants seized the land from a British agribusiness company four years ago, beef production has dropped from 2.6 million pounds (1.2 million kilograms) annually to zero.
How?Critics say the government has been slow to help small farmers like Gomez, while at the same time its massive expropriations of farmland are discouraging investment in agriculture.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/953502.html
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