He used to go around the villages writing checks to poor farmers.

As with peasant men, the life of peasant women was difficult.

Hu s Politburo has consistently refused to let peasants set up non official farmers associations or trade unions.

On the supply side, there must be more support for poor farmers in drug producing countries to give them viable alternatives to growing coca.

In this case, returning land to dispossessed peasants and offering financial reparation to the victims and those who were displaced by the conflict became the way to peace.

Provision of low interest loans and subsidized fertilizer to sustain farmers purchasing power, which succeeded in increasing the real income of farmers, men and women, who made up the majority of the population