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====Land Reform==== | ====Land Reform==== | ||
Land reform began in 1949 with the in 1949, [[Index of Kiravian legislation|Field Rent Control Act]], which capped farm rents at 37.5% of yields. This was followed by the [[Index of Kiravian legislation|Cultivator Tenancy Act of 1950]], which allowed for farm rent forgiveness by Prime Executive proclamation during natural disasters, promoted farmers' associations, and strengthened tenant farmers' protections against eviction. The Cultivator Tenancy Act helped to accelerate acquiescence to land reform by making large landholdings more of a financial liability. Collegial ordinances began to be issued in 1951 to effect the sale of arable land owned by the [[Kiravian Territorial Executive|General Land Bureau]] (that is, federal revenue land) to former tenant farmers so that they might become owner-cultivators. | |||
Confiscatory land reform and the breakup of large estates by government fiat would not begin until 1953. Such measures were opposed by members of the Kiravian Old Right, the United Empire Loyalists, the Æonaran timocracy, and (to a more limited extent) former landowning emigrés from the Mainland standing on principle. On the other hand, they were supported by the core cadre of the Renaissance Party, the Freesoil Councils (the Party's cultivators' wing), the UAP, and the Christian Democrats, to say nothing of the Æonaran tenant farmer populace. Most historians agree that land reform helped greatly to legitimise the Remnant regime in the eyes of the common people and earn their buy-in to its larger nation-building agenda. | |||
Monocrop plantations producing certain cash crops - most importantly coffee - were exempt from most reforms. In addition to ensuring minimal disruption to the business model of an important export-oriented part of the agricultural sector during a crucial economic transition, this limitation on land reform helped to blunt much of the political opposition to land reform by demobilising the influential coffee planters (many of whom were Empire Loyalists) against the reform legislation. | |||
=== Post-Kirosocialism === | === Post-Kirosocialism === | ||