To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:
a. many landowners kicked off black tenants in favor of whites
b. farmers often starved because they were not allowed to grow even small vegetable gardens
c. farmers had to let fields go idle for three years in a row
d. tenants and sharecroppers had to stick with lucrative staples such as cotton
e. many landowners took their leased lands out of production
Ans: e. many landowners took their leased lands out of production
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