A.I.D. Spring Review of Land Reform: Country papersAgency for International Development, Department of State, 1970 |
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acres administration agricultural production agricultural sector ANAP average bananas Brazil capital Carlos Rafael Rodríguez cattle Census Chonchol coffee colonization corn cropland crops Cuba Cuban cultivation decreased distribution economic Económico ejidos estimated exports expropriation farm land farm operators Fidel Castro GERAN Government grower Guatemala Havana hectares Highlands IBRA implementation important income increased indicate INRA Institute irrigation Jacques Chonchol labor land reform land reform program land tenure landowners large farms large number latifundio Law of Agrarian major Mexico million mills Northeast number of farms output owners ownership peasant People's Farms percent period Pernambuco plantations political private farms Recife Reforma Agraria region reported result Revolution rice rural population rural sector Sertao settlement sharecroppers small farmers social Source square kilometers subsistence SUDENE sugar cane Sugar Cane Cooperatives Sugar Company sugar industry supply Table total farm workers yields ZDA's Zona da Mata zone
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Page 9 - Large landholdings are proscribed, and to do away with them the maximum amount of land that each person or entity can have, for each kind of exploitation to which land is devoted, and bearing in mind the respective peculiarities, shall be specified by law. The acquisition and possession of land by foreign persons and companies shall be restrictively limited by law, which shall provide measures tending to restore the land to Cubans.
Page 43 - Power traction and other mechanical means of cultivation have probably been significant in clearing certain areas for cultivation and in keeping them in profitable production? but by no stretch of the imagination can they be considered a principal factor in the agricultural development of Mexico up to 1960.
Page 35 - Total 161 173 165 aAnimal products do not include sales of live animals or village slaughter, for which comparable data by farm categories are lacking; they do include milk and milk products, wool, eggs, honey, and wax.
Page 59 - New Agricultural Settlement Along Mexico's Candelaria River: Implications of Increased Commitment to Planning and the Ejido,' Inter-American Economic Affairs, 20:1 (Summer 1966), 23-39.
Page 55 - Outelaan, absenteeism plays havoc on agriculture, and professional acumen does not live up to political mentality. Everyone complains of the lack of Man-labor not knowing that the drop in production is caused by the low productivity. 5) The People's Farms have a productivity lower than that of private farms. A private farm in the vicinity of sugar «<n "Ecuador" has a productivity 5 times higher than that of a nearby People's Farm called "Lidiel Hernandez".
Page 54 - On financing land reform: A Mexican casebook," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol.
Page 49 - ... is less costly than large-scale production in terms of the goods that are scarce in the Mexican economy. The large private farms are using more of the hardware that might otherwise have been invested toward even more rapid industrialization of the country. "There is no doubt...
Page 22 - Mexican land) and they were paid, apparently, somewhat less than half of the 18 / estimated value of the land. — ' Mexican landowners were on the whole treated even less kindly. Even though the land bonds were negotiable and would be accepted in payment of taxes, bureaucratic delays in recognizing landowners' claims were such that most landowners apparently never bothered to file the claims, and only a small minority were ever paid anything, and these at a fraction of the market value of the land...
Page 47 - As is normal in low-income countries, there is a wide income disparity between the agricultural sector and the rest of the economy. In the...