The U.S. Agency for International Development has been helping make possible a broad program of agrarian reform in Colombia through loans totaling $18.5 million. Six and a half million acres of fertile land, once held by landlords, have been redistributed to campesinos - many who formerly worked as share croppers on the huge estates. In 1969, 80,000 families were purchasing their own farms under the Colombian government's program and the gross annual income of the average small farmer had increased from $580 to $1367 in the brief span of two years. This campesino will have a better life and broader horizons thanks to the agrarian reform program instituted by the Colombian Government. He works in a citrus fruit co-op near Amero, Colombia.
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.25.2015 11:19 |
| Photo ID: | 2117721 |
| VIRIN: | 150812-O-ZZ999-177 |
| Resolution: | 12664x16000 |
| Size: | 16.23 MB |
| Location: | CO |
| Web Views: | 13 |
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