j. andras kev each received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father thirty. and jay's an engineer his wife is an accountant they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began after lithuania declared independence unemployment had read its head for the first time in the post soviet region. we had to go into farming simply because we had no other source of income now i'm pretty certain our farm has no prospects. existed any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and reduce all of their efforts to nothing. there's no scope for the farm to grow the reluctant farmers don't have the money to save for a rainy day. most small farms here face a similar bleak situation. the government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. . collective farms were raised to the ground but now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production of. farms have real prospects. but. very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis and