Instead, it is cutting nonrice subsidies and likely will soon revise its Agriculture Basic Law and allow corporations to till the land.

FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart

People usually till the land their parents tilled.

ECONOMIST: No title

Farmers are loth to invest in improving productivity when they have no title to the land they till.

ECONOMIST: Ethiopia

By some calculations although there's some scientific argument over this each acre of no-till land in Iowa captures about a ton of carbon dioxide from the air each year.

NPR: Iowa Farmers Look to Trap Carbon in Soil