Landi's departure also comes only days after the signing of former Cannes and Metz midfielder Milan Thomas.

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Livi made a promising start to the league season, with Landi being First Division named manager of the month in August.

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"More than half of Italian-owned businesses in the industrial zone have gone to the wall over the past decade, " Mr Landi continues.

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Landi's departure came two days after Livi lost 2-1 to Third Division side East Stirlingshire in the third round of the Scottish Cup.

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Now the same tractors they use to plant soybeans are put to work planting seeds from native trees like Landi, Muruci and Baru.

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Landi Renzo sets up shop near car manufacturing plants and installs CNG technology into the cars as they roll off the assembly line.

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Landi, who managed the Under-21 national sides of Lithuania, Qatar and Georgia, signed a two-year deal with the Lions in July following a takeover by a consortium from his Italian homeland.

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The trucks were returning from Afghanistan but were stranded in the town because, a day earlier, suspected militants had destroyed a bridge connecting Landi Kotal to Jamrod, another part of the Khyber Agency.

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"These are Landi seeds, " he says.

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