date:Jun 21, 2013
to modernize the Soviet-style economy.
With the country importing around 60 percent of its food and private farms outperforming state farms on a fraction of the land, authorities are gradually deregulating the sector and leasing fallow land to would-be farmers.
At the same time, the state is licensing private truckers and vendors as part of an opening to small businesses. Some 400,000 people now work in what is called the non-state sector.
The government has said it will hold on to medium-siz