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Ukraine may dole out huge tracts of unused farmland

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Sept. 27, 2012, 11:26 p.m. | Business — by Mark Rachkevych

Not all the government land earmarked for cultivation is zoned as agricultural so the program wouldn’t presumably significantly encroach on the 32.5 million hectares of farmland that the country has.
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Mark Rachkevych

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