Puerto Pollo launches "back to the land" program

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The Puerto Polloan government has launched a new program to encourage internal migration from the capital Danjer Cove to the countryside. The city today houses almost half of the total population, a disparity that has created deep issues of unemployment and inadequate living conditions. Thousands of Puerto Polloan, mostly poor farmers, escaped to the capital through the decades to escape endemic poverty and the violence of the civil wars.

Puerto Pollo is officialy a socialist state, but the government allow a certain degree of private enterprise in the form of "contractors": thus the farming land will remain in possession of the state, but will be leased to individual farmers. The program will involve not only subsidies in the form of money and agrarian equipment, but also training for the will-be farmers, since all of them will be urban dwellers with little or no experience.

The government has reassured the international community that this initiative will not cause a setback of the ongoing coca eradication program, after several analysts warned about this risk.