Great stuff guys. I agree with the last couple of posts & most of Docs.

The great thing about this site is that most people here have a very high levels of understanding in some subject or the other - doctors, lawyers, gun smiths, farmers, professors and many more.

The management of land by a society that traditionally did not have individual ownership of land is not easy! Australia and New Zealand have similar issues with their indegenous people. India has fragmented land ownership - maximum allowed is about 50 acres of dry land and about 20 acres of wet land such as rice paddy, per person! Companies & plantation laws are a bit different. I worked in a large British Tea plantation company in NE India in the 80s, where the governement had acquired all the fallow land / swamps not suitable for the plantation & re-distributed it to the workers with ownership title!!! This was probably done in the 60's - 20 years after independence - when they had to break down the old feudal system of land ownership by the local village chiefs.

Moving from a pre-industrial tribal society to a successful post-industrial society will take a few generations.

Merry Christmas