Before then, farmers relentlessly cleared wooded space to be able to cultivate land, their only survival mean.

Though many of them do not own lands, in one way or the other they cultivate land and earn their living.

Many families were displaced to cultivate land in ranches which were built in the area to farm the land.

By paying land taxes to the state, they were allowed to cultivate land and farm.

The amount of the grant was regulated by the wealth and importance of the settler, the size of his family, and his ability to cultivate land.