The challenge in those days was to apply a national policy that as an experiment allowed the breakup of agricultural communes in backward areas.

As professionally trained doctors and nurses became more available, the program was abolished in 1981 with the end of agricultural communes.

China got rid of its agricultural communes and turned to private farms that are, for all practical purposes, family owned.

An agricultural commune, it produces rice, coffee and pepper.

In its inaugural issue, Red Flag announced that agricultural communes were the correct approach to farming.

He wanted to propel China forward with agricultural communes and steel production.

Between 1834 and 1838 the missions were secularized (closed as agricultural communes).

An agricultural commune is a commune based on agricultural labor.

European counter-culturalists moved to Auroville during the 1960's and the place prospered as an agricultural commune.

The religious agricultural communes were replaced with state communes.