In the four hundred years during which the Romans held sway, the land was worked by state-owned farms.

Agriculture's hallmark, both before and after the two world wars, was the state-owned farm, the Staatsdomäne.

State-owned farms were very often the organizers of social life, and theoretically adequately met all the needs of workers.

But what they are sure to do is funnel huge subsidies into steel mills, military factories and state-owned farms.

Sovkhoz, a type of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union

With the consent of church and state, the liturgy was held in the common rooms of the local, state-owned farms until 17 July 1982.

The change was especially drastic in rural areas of the country, which had previously been collectivized by the Communists into state-owned farms.

Diksis farm is a medium-sized state-owned farm in this woreda.

State-owned farms also were established.

Everyday life in state-owned farms), Warsaw 2005.

Volkseigenes Gut, a type of state-owned farm in East Germany

Stepan Simonuk is a farmer in Belarus who recently bought some pigs from a state-owned farm.

The office was headed by an Amtmann, who collected taxes from the citizens and farmed the land on the state-owned farm, the estate of the castle.

Because the government provided seeds, water, management, health facilities, and schools, as well as workers' salaries, the farms were really state-owned farms rather than cooperatives.

Millions of Soviet farmers were removed from their private farms, their property was collected, and they were moved to state-owned farms.

Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne, a state-owned farm in communist Poland

Liquidation of state-owned farms has often been restricted, or permanent abandonment of animal husbandry, crop production limitation, changes in farming methods.

Already, some "revolutionary" measures - state-owned farms, nationalized industries and restrictions on speech and association - are now referred to even by party stalwarts as "our mistakes."

The mounting sense of urgency about how his people live has driven the Soviet leader to propose new measures that would expand private control of state-owned farms and factories.

And post-independence measures modeled on Soviet practice - the state-owned farms, the closing of churches, the nationalization of industries - are referred to now as "our errors."

Farms were usuallty organized either in state-owned farms (Volkseigenes Gut) or collective farms (Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft).

The pro-Government newspaper Nuevo Diario asserted today that it was growing less than half as much sugar per acre as was being grown on state-owned farms.

The Central Bank currently has 135 billion rubles outstanding in loans, much of it to banks that relend to farmers and state-owned farm equipment companies, Mr. Domonov said.

March 16 - The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approves agricultural reforms allowing farmers the right to lease state-owned farms for life.

The Batyrovs were among the few who managed to obtain land before the last planting season, when tractors, seed and other basics could still be wrangled from state-owned farms for a manageable price.