So peasant associations were quite influential by this stage?

This program proliferated the formation of peasant associations, large villages based on agriculture.

In peasant associations daily life is a struggle to survive.

These living conditions are deplorable, but are the daily lives of peasant associations.

The peasant associations face a cycle of poverty.

After 1975 the revolutionary government used peasant associations to accelerate conservation work throughout rural areas.

It purchased grain from peasant associations at fixed prices.

Leaseholders receive land in use rights from the state through the intermediation of the local peasant association (the lease term is usually 5-10 years).

Their function was to act as local law enforcement agencies within the jurisdiction of each peasant association and kebele.

In the 1970s there was a proliferation of "popular organizations," many sponsored by the Church, including peasant associations, self-help groups, unions, and so on.