The countryside was now a prosperous well-watered land, populated by peasant farms.

More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed onto just 16 per cent of the land.

The third type - peasant farms - began to emerge only after 1990, during the post-Soviet transition.

Although he passed occasional villages and peasant farms, he didn't dare trust anyone enough to ask for refuge.

Still, peasant farms harvested 50% of all cereals and nearly 60% of cotton in 2006.

On Mikhaylovka peasant farms were 134 horses, 2 oxen, 51 cows and 55 other animals.

Some estimates indicated that yields on peasant farms were higher than those on state farms.

He was born in Høyland, as the youngest of ten siblings at a small peasant farm.

They also saw a number of peasant farms lying abandoned.

But the peasants respected private property and did not attack it, including large estates and rich peasant farms.