The centre is situated in a farming area, a few kilometres away from the Mozambique border post.
In desperation I board a ferry to Junshan district, a farming area reclaimed from Dongting Lake in the late '50s.
In a bucolic farming area, one large landholder on prime acreage may suddenly set himself apart from the rest, with industrial facilities on his land that others consider an eyesore, and significant large vehicle traffic going to and fro for many months.
Dana Diminescu, of France's Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, recently discovered that 11 villages in the Oas region of northern Romania, a poor farming area of about 70, 000 people, had generated a regular pattern of illegal migrants to Paris, almost all of whom eventually went back home.
European settlers drained many swamps when they began farming this area, resulting in a loss of wetland habitat.
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That may not sound disastrous, but it would have been enough to make farming in the area unviable.
Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.
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Basically, it's an inventive method of wetland farming conducive to the area, whose freshwater springs and shallow waters made it an ideal place for chinampa agriculture.
Chunks of the Save Valley conservancy have been earmarked for resettlement, although the area is unsuitable for farming.
One area of the economy that is undeniably stagnant is farming, which will probably grow by just 2.6% this year.
Matching that power output with corn ethanol would require intensive farming on more than 21, 000 square miles, an area nearly the size of West Virginia.
With chinampas, the area's Aztec people were basically able to construct new space for farming on previously unhospitable land.
There has long been opposition to the prospect of a gold mine and processing plant being built at Skouries in the Halkidiki peninsula, with some residents objecting to what they say will be the destruction of the environment and of pristine forest in the area, leading to the loss of tourism and other local activities such as farming, the rearing of livestock and fishing.
Last year, Sunni rebels started attacking Alawites and Shiite minorities inhabiting the farming villages around Qusayr, and this year, rebels openly vowed to "cleanse" the area of the two groups.
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