Actions
- Expanded previous government’s schemes of providing money to drain or irrigate farmland (laws passed in 1923, ’28 and ’33)
- The Pontine marshes, only 50 km from Rome and thus easily accessible by foreign journalists, were the showpiece; by 1935 they provided land for settlement
- Malaria swamps were drained and a network of small farms were set up, owned by ex-servicemen
- Large subsidies were given to private landowners who were encouraged to cooperate with drainage schemes and administer the schemes
- Fascist propaganda stressed the need to revive the rural areas and to build up a strong peasantry.
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