Sentence examples for idle lands from inspiring English sources

This became the Virgin and Idle Lands program, which embraced mainly western Siberia and northern Kazakhstan.

Agriculture, greatly extended in the Virgin and Idle Lands campaign of the 1950s, dominates the economy.

The Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign initiated in 1953 relied mainly on the sovkhozy.

This led to a clash with the largest landowner in the country, the U.S.-based United Fruit Company, whose idle lands he tried to expropriate.

Agriculture is significant in the eastern steppe, on which considerable acreages were plowed under the Soviet regime's Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign of the 1950s.

But in 1954 Nikita Khrushchev, who had gained full power in Moscow, made Brezhnev second secretary of the Kazakhstan Communist Party (1954), in which capacity he vigorously implemented Khrushchev's ambitious Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan.

To boost domestic production, government reforms have created a wholesale market for agricultural goods, leased millions of acres of idle state land to individual farmers and relaxed the old requirement that 70% of farm produce must be sold to the state at below-market prices.

Farmers can lease idle land from the state.

The country has plenty of sun and flat, idle land.

To that end, he has introduced measures to redistribute idle land and allow farmers more autonomy.

But the state itself owns much idle land that could be used for this purpose.