and jay's an engineer his wife neo lia 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. to 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. was entirely wrong collective farms were raised to the ground but now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis. j. and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy the