The majority will become unemployed and landless agricultural workers.

As elsewhere in the developing world, the better-off landlords have benefited, even if landless workers have not.

Ranchers and settlers have invaded Indian lands, followed by landless rural workers.

But they are the lifeline for tens of thousands of landless workers who tend the fields, local officials said.

Others applied the term fellahin only to landless workers.

From 1999 to 2006, 130 landless workers were assassinated by sicarios paid by opponents to the reform.

The region is cyclone-prone, and the people are mostly landless agricultural workers.

These landless workers were willing to try their luck in distant Siberia.

The government had taken steps to rehabilitate the landless workers, whose main occupation was agriculture.

That was part of a strategy of creating media events in order to call the general public's attention to landless workers' plight.