They are also reported to be handing out guns to the rural population in Putumayo.
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They've applied for the water rights in seven rural valleys where cows and horses outnumber the rural population.
Better, wider roads have raised expectations among the rural population, too, and among those living close to the highways.
More than four-fifths of the rural population of 675m work on tiny plots.
By jettisoning political ideology and getting off the backs of the rural population, China made quick improvements in living standards.
Over half of the rural population is literate and the urban literacy ratio stood at almost three-fourth in the province.
He has bought protection from local and federal authorities and has become a popular folk hero among the rural population.
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It is the rural population, however, that makes the Chinese numbers so big, and selling to them is another matter.
So will the latest food security scheme aimed at providing subsidised food grains to 75% of the rural population and half of the urban households work?
The controversial project will more than double electrical output in Ethiopia, where less than two percent of the rural population has access to the grid.
Mr Putin has increasingly relied on the support of the rural population and industrial workers, as well as the 40% or so of the electorate who are elderly.
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But the vast mass of the rural population remains impoverished.
Historically, China has had major social disruptions when the rural and urban gap widened too much, and the rural population felt that they were ignored by the central government.
In the last two decades, the rural population has decreased by a third to just 2, 675 people, with villages that once had populations of around 300 now housing 40 or fewer inhabitants.
On the sensitive issue of income distribution, the researchers say the rate of wealth growth for the rural population will outstrip that of the cities this year, but the gap between rich and poor is still widening.
The rural population is growing it has risen by 17% since 1971 compared with population growth of 4% in England as a whole but much of the growth has come from people moving out of cities and from the spread of retirement homes.
With the largest rural population in the world, India is perhaps the primary market for the iSlate and similar products.
The country's predominantly rural population failed to understand the long-term constitutional issues involved.
India has established dedicated satellite systems for education and tele-medicine delivery, which can reach even the most remote rural population.
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By using Sybase 365 mBanking, DDBL can now reach the rural and unbanked population 45 per cent of them are mobile phone users.
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The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
Minorities, they point out, tend to vote Democratic, whereas the dwindling white, rural population is largely Republican.
He said the future challenge was to develop care models best suited to the county's rural population.
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The population in rural Kansas is shrinking, as family farms give way to industrial-sized farms that require fewer workers.
HarVa, a start-up that focuses primarily on skill development, community-based farming and microfinance for the population of rural India.
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In the past, it was rare for Chinese to leave their home regions, and four-fifths of the population was rural.
Where half the population of rural areas have no safe water.
On the domestic front, China's rural poor population has declined for the first time since the poverty line was raised in 2011, although poverty alleviation work remains arduous, Xinhua news agency reports.
Approximately one-half of the world's population lives in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them usually lack trained health care workers.
At present, over two-thirds of Pakistan's parliamentary constituencies are rural, with the urban population supposedly still a minority.
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