One desperate farmer unable to get his equipment into the sodden fields rented a small plane and dropped seeds from the air.

At the last, even their own soldiers were killing farmers, desperate to find any food.

These circumstances forced desperate farmers into crop liens, when they put up their land to pay for seeds in spring.

With farmers desperate to sell, prices have plummeted.

Some desperate farmers are trying to irrigate their failed crops with sea water.

There was no civilization here at all, only desperate farmers trying to hold a few acres of ground.

A poor farmer, desperate to continue his family's farming traditions, clashes with his sickly, sensitive son.

The joke starts (usually) with a physicist offering to solve a dairy-related problem for a desperate farmer.

In this situation, desperate farmers have been migrating on their own within Ethiopia for decades in search of more fertile land.

Many landlords abused the situation by building large estates where desperate farmers would work and be exploited.