farmers laying aside areas for conservation : PUT ASIDE, put to one side, keep, save.
producers must lay aside their conservatism : ABANDON, cast aside, reject, renounce, repudiate, disregard, forget, discard; poetic/literary forsake.
protesters led the government to lay the plans aside : DEFER, shelve, suspend, put on ice, mothball, set aside, put off/aside; informal put on the back burner.
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