Half of that was in agribusiness, in the soy farming town of Barreiras in Bahia state.
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The twister killed at least 10 people and razed the farming town.
In the farming town of Karoi, in the north of the country, they have been joined by white-owned shops and industries, causing major disruption.
At Sunday's emotional church service in this farming town of fewer than 3, 000 residents, the priest told congregants his personal recollection of Wednesday's horror.
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Once a rural farming town, it's now known as a hotbed for skydiving activity, and the home to large retiree mobile home parks and Zephyrhills bottled water.
The widow soon steals away on a bus to Bountiful, a tiny farming town where she spent her youth, in hopes of recapturing her vitality and purpose.
"When it comes to negotiations we fear no one, " Tsvangirai said Saturday, speaking to a crowd in Marondera, a farming town about 70 kilometers (43 miles) east of the capital, Harare.
Before I ever started writing a column, I taught for nearly five years in a poor farming town in central California where most of the students were the children of Mexican farm workers.
At the Pizza House on Oak Street, waitstaff and locals discussed the state of their homes while drinking their beers, trying to figure out how to deal with the fact their once quaint farming town now resembled a war zone.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: The town has grown from subsistence farming to selling high-value crops like lettuce and carrots and celery.
The vet's prognosis -- foot and mouth disease -- marked the beginning of a six-month nightmare that saw Oswestry reduced to a ghost town and the entire British farming industry pitched into crisis.
The New England town evolved into a prosperous fishing and farming community.
Mr Bates added that a modern, new livestock market on the outskirts of Welshpool would maintain the town's strong links with the farming community.
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