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Shrinking land

Shrinking land: A farmer uses a plowing machine in a ricefield near the state university in Gorontalo, northern Sulawesi The local agriculture office has revealed that the size of ricefields in the province is decreasing every year, with most of it being turned into building and residential areas

The Jakarta Post
Mon, June 22, 2015

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Shrinking land Shrinking land: A farmer uses a plowing machine in a ricefield near the state university in Gorontalo, northern Sulawesi The local agriculture office has revealed that the size of ricefields in the province is decreasing every year, with most of it being turned into building and residential areas. There were about 916 hectares of ricefield in 2013 but by this year it had dropped to 800 ha. (JP/Syamsul Huda M.Suhari) (JP/Syamsul Huda M.Suhari)

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span class="inline inline-center">Shrinking land: A farmer uses a plowing machine in a ricefield near the state university in Gorontalo, northern Sulawesi The local agriculture office has revealed that the size of ricefields in the province is decreasing every year, with most of it being turned into building and residential areas. There were about 916 hectares of ricefield in 2013 but by this year it had dropped to 800 ha. (JP/Syamsul Huda M.Suhari)

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