But rural land, though no longer farmed collectively, as it was in Mao's disastrous "people's communes", has stayed under collective ownership overseen by local party bosses.
The scattered plots of tenanted land were located in each of two or three large fields, which were farmed collectively by the tenants; therefore, it was essential that villagers agree on the nature and timing of plowing, harrowing, planting, and harvesting.
By taking a broader view, such as wind farms, collectively such an application would have a greater impact upon the environment and cost.
In 2012, California farm barons collectively grossed $311.2 million on melons alone.
He estimates revenue from horse boarding is up 40percentt since 2012 at the two farms, which collectively have more than 100 horses and almost 300 acres, much of it rolling pastures, in Harford and Baltimore counties.
One hundred microlitres of anticoagulated blood from each pig sample for the three pigs per farm was collectively pooled and thoroughly mixed to make 300 μl.
Individually, these environmental impacts appear, for the most part, of the same nature and in the same ballpark as the risks associated with other herbicide-based farming systems, but collectively they raise novel concerns over long-term, possibly serious impacts on biodiversity, soil and plant health, water quality, aquatic ecosystem integrity, and human and animal health.
In the former Soviet Union sovkhozy, or state agricultural farms, were owned collectively (that is, by the government).
Once plan members take control of the farm, they can collectively decide to use their shares to reduce the price of their weekly take, and make other decisions about how the farm is run and what's grown.
Once privately owned, it was occupied in the aftermath of the civil war by the 40 families who now collectively farm it, and eventually bought it with a loan from the new government.
Peasants in rural Haiti generally worked the land under an informal system of tenancy, in which they established de-facto ownership over small plots of land, then joined their plots with their neighbors', usually members of their extended families, and farmed the land collectively.
