"How would we justify an essentially agrarian country importing most of the food that it eats and then using our lands to produce something else that we don't eat?
VOA: standard.2009.08.23
In a poor agrariancountry, the charge of bullying farmers to pander to big business can be a winding blow, especially as the ruling coalition, led by the Congress Party, relies on the Communist parties for its parliamentary majority.
But the question of title is a tricky one, in a country where land registries are chaotic and most land has not been surveyed including that belonging to the National Agrarian Institute, the country's biggest landowner.
Upon coming to power in 1975, Pol Pot, or "Brother No.1" as he was called within the organization, launched Year Zero -- the first year of the country's return to a self-sufficient agrarian society.