The government also broke up the large sugar-cane plantations, left over from the colonial period and producing exclusively for export, into small vegetable farms. It also encouraged urban households to start rooftop gardens and neighborhoods to plant small orchards. Agriculture was pursued using collective irrigation, worm composting, biological pest killers, crop rotation, and cattle-drawn plowing.
政府把遺留自殖民經濟時代、專供出口的大蔗園，改成小型菜園，也鼓勵城鎮家庭開闢屋頂農園，或社區鄰里廣闢菜圃，並且以共同灌溉、蚯蚓堆肥、生物性農藥、輪耕、牛隻耕作來進行農事。