The farms are much bigger and they're all mechanically minded – they sit on tractors".
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, most imports of food, fuel, tractors, fertilisers and pesticides were cut off.
Then the private security firms came in and closed down the roads and blocked the tractors.
Of course, they still complain about their fate, but at home they have plasma televisions, and they drive out on their fields on tractors worth tens of thousands of euros.
Out in the countryside among the multicoloured mountains, the dirt of tractors and trucks belonging to the mining facility can be seen from miles, razing the land, and emptying dirt into the nearby water.
Cuba will be able to import chemical fertilisers, pesticides and fuel for tractors; foreign investors will want to buy profitable farmland, and urban land may become too valuable for mere gardening.
Farmers rediscovered sustainable techniques of intercropping and replacing tractors with oxen.
Mahindra & Mahindra of India went from making tractors to producing cars.
ALONG Route 7 in Cambodia's remote north, dozens of small tractors known as "iron buffaloes" are plying a dilapidated piece of highway.
New roofs, fences, barns and tractors have sprouted on many local farms; plenty of shiny new pick-up trucks ply the roads.
The drivers wear masks, their tractors fitted with just one dim lamp at the front.
