"The media coverage tends to be quite negative with a lot of this stuff, but it's still a bloody good industry … it's an exciting area of farming".
In Yabu, a small town in the mountains of Hyogo prefecture, and in Niigata, a slightly larger city, the ability of local agricultural committees to block large companies entering the protected area of farming will be sharply reined in.
Ms. Kefalidou grew up in Drama, a small city in northern Greece, an area of farming and light manufacturing, though in recent years much of the industry departed for former Eastern bloc countries like Bulgaria.
The police had been in a nearby rural area of farms and orchards conducting an operation.
Gaddafi was not born in the city itself but in Bou Hadi, a sprawling, largely rural area of farms and large villas on the city's outskirts.
The storm fell over an area of farm fields and light industry, narrowly missing the heavily populated suburbs on the southern edge of Toledo.
Nearly 500 people were injured, 200 of them critically, when the storm hit a densely populated area of farms and factories near Yancheng, in Jiangsu province, north of Shanghai, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Mr. Obama's repeated trips to Elkhart County, an area of farms and small industry in northern Indiana, has made it something of an administration touchstone for the crisis he inherited and for his plans to surmount it.
Redistricting has thrown the 53-year-old freshman into the most conservative district in the state — away from the suburbs of Buffalo and Rochester and into a rural area of farms and villages in a district near the Canadian border.
Passage can cost $40,000, a crushing sum in light of the poverty of Fujian Province, a mineral-rich area of farms and fisheries where only 9.8percentt of the 33 million people complete high school and the average yearly income for city dwellers is $785.
Leaving the mountains and plateau, the river flows down Appalachian valleys, skirts the Kittatinny Mountains, which it crosses at Delaware Water Gap (a national recreation area) between nearly vertical walls of sandstone, and passes through an area of farms and forests until it enters hills again at Easton, Pa.
