The affected area accounts of one-tenth of China's cultivatable land. There are 1.1 hectares of cultivatable land per farm family. The total cultivatable land is 456,600 hectares. There also existed acreage requirements for cultivatable lands in order to secure a loan. They obtained these regions from the local rulers and transformed the forestlands into cultivatable one. The marshes were turned into cultivatable land in the 1930s under Benito Mussolini. Cultivatable land amounted to 33% of the total area. Most of the land was not cultivatable. Cultivatable command area&colon; 2.75 Lakhs Acres. Side valleys and agricultural terraces (andenes) expand the cultivatable area. At this time only a few hundred acres of the land was cultivatable.