Not all farmers were fortunate enough to be allocated prime, fertile land near rivers, and those with insufficient irrigation technology found it difficult to generate a sufficient harvest in drought years, so they frequently moved to unoccupied areas in hidden mountain valleys where they could covertly cultivate pockets of land near streams while escaping detection.
pockets of
land
while escaping detection
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