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...control over some of Nicaragua's subsistence farmers. In a speech last month, Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock Roman noted that while independent peasant farmers worked 48% of the nation's farmland to produce 26% of the crops, large cooperatives using only 24% of the land grew 49% of the harvest. Each of the new camps is attached either to a collective farm or to a privately owned cooperative, where some of the refugees have been given work...
...very difficult ( situation, with an external debt in the neighborhood of $48 billion; 60% of our export earnings go to service that debt. The world price of grain has fallen by 20% to 25%, and because of that we have lost $850 million in potential income, despite a record harvest. Trade agreements discriminate against Latin America. We are having problems selling some of our products abroad. Yet to pay our debts we must have foreign currency, and to earn foreign currency we must export. An even greater problem for us is inflation. We inherited a budget in which the deficit...
Soviet agriculture is a continuing saga of failure. Last year's grain harvest was an estimated 170 million tons, down from 195 million in 1983 and well below the 1978 peak of 237 million. To offset agricultural shortages, the Soviet Union depends on imports. Moscow is expected to buy up to 52 million tons of grain, including at least 20 million from the U.S., in the period from July 1984 through June 1985, an increase of 52% over the previous year. Says Olin Robison, president of Middlebury College in Vermont and a Soviet expert: "A very sad fact about Soviet...
...existed only on paper. Farm officials were paying off bureaucrats at cotton-collection points in exchange for phony receipts acknowledging delivery of their crops. Bribes were also paid to employees of local cotton gins as the noncotton was nonprocessed. One result: while the announced volume of Uzbekistan's cotton harvest has increased over the past eight years, the amount of cotton fiber actually obtained has declined by 76,000 tons...
...tiny, isolated country of nearly 4 million where the annual per capita income is about $100. At the U.S. embassy in Vientiane, Charge d'Affaires Theresa A. Tull points out that the U.S. recently donated 5,000 tons of rice to Laos to help it survive a bad harvest. But Tull is firm when asked if the U.S. plans to open financial doors for Laos on the basis of the one crash-site excavation. "We need more than a single event," she says. "We need a sustained pattern of cooperation...