Ducks paddled on ponds that had once been farmland.
Ecological sanitation gets that out of the water and back onto farmland to enrich, not pollute.
An agricultural version might also navigate around farmland, checking for weed and insect infestations, and feeding itself as it went.
The market is also crimped by a rule that no more than 20% of farmland in any county may lie fallow.
The Chengdu government began reining in its financing vehicles about three years ago after it discovered highways were being built across farmland where there was no traffic, Zeng said.
This drives people to convert more forest into farmland.
Launched in 1994, the plan was to redistribute 30% of white-owned farmland to poor blacks.
His most visible farmland, the area he is now weeding, will hereafter be used for wheat and melons.
The spectacle was all the more remarkable for being carried live on television, even as the waves engulfed flat farmland that offered no resistance.
They are working in the farmland.
Most of its forests are far from farmland, which makes the costs of leaving them standing relatively low.
Whether you're in the arid desert or fertile farmland, you're likely to find all types of amazing creatures right in your area.
Life should be the same as these flowers, whether growing in poor land, or fertile farmland, should absorb nutrients in the wind and rain, in the bright smile in the sun.
Nationwide there are dozens of places like Liukuaizhuang, where factories have blackened streams, poisoned farmland and choked the air.
Not surprisingly, fieldwork takes her to parched sub-Saharan farmland where farmers grow rain-fed crops on small plots of land and struggle to live on about a dollar a day.
Vast tracts of fertile farmland now lie fallow; agricultural output has slumped.
The others were begun by the government and rest partly on a law providing that farmland which lies fallow for more than 20 years can be reclaimed by the state as "forest".
With growing concern about the security of food supply and the signs of an emerging global land grab, the attraction of farmland as an investment is clear.
Even today, settlers around the globe are buying or claiming cheap "useless" forest and transforming it into farmland.
These river valley areas, which are seasonally flooded, or have high water tables for a large part of the year, are an important dry season farmland.
There are nine bedrooms, a coach house, a farmhouse, five cottages and farmland.
Villagers in South Sudan need not buy farmland.
