There is about 70,000 hectares of possible productive land but only 17,000 have been studied for management.

"With populations very small in proportion to the area of productive land?"

No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land.

I learned later that it was, in normal years, productive agricultural land.

Under any circumstances there would not be enough productive land to distribute to all who want it.

The river flows through some of the most productive agricultural land in the province.

It was also described as having productive land and inexhaustible water.

This would be their ticket out of the slums and into more productive land.

The ratio of productive land to population was high.

Whether or not they end up with more productive land, the three farmers seem pleased to try something new without financial risk.