It has been proven many times that farmers farm their own land more carefully and productively than they cultivate someone else’s soil. Again, a prime example comes from Japan, where, at the close of World War II, huge stretches of (67) were in the hands of absentee landlords (在外地主), (68) by tenants. Among the changes (69) by the U. S. occupation was a land reform (70) that put the farms in the hands of the individual farmers (71) owners, not tenants; the landlords were expropriated (剥夺了地主的财产). Many of the farms thus assigned were small, (72) production rose enormously. Today, Japanese (73) , meticulous (细致的) in their care of the land and its (74) , produce up to four times as (75) grain per unit area as do other Asian farmers. Land reform programs in other (76) of the world have had similar, if not quite as dramatic, (77) on yields. Mexico began major land (78) after the revolution, Egypt after the defeat of King Farouk, (79) Taiwan after World War II. On a most modest (80) , land reform programs have been (81) in many other countries. Almost without exception, this has (82) in increased productivity and much better (83) of the soil. In the Soviet Union. workers on collective farms are (84) a small parcel (一块) of land for their own use. Anyone (85) has traveled through the U. S. S. R. has been struck by the intensive use made of these (86) plots and their huge output, given their size.