| 1 | Crops grown on irrigated land are not dependent on the vagaries of the weather. | |
| 2 | Opposition politicians blame the government, saying a river project has reduced farmland. | |
| 3 | It allows farmers "to lease their contracted farmland or transfer their land-use rights". | |
| 4 | Displaced agricultural workers then, though, could migrate from fields to factories and earn higher wages in the process. | |
| 5 | These operated to the disadvantage of the South, a largely agricultural area, which had to pay high prices for imports. |