Land Tenure in the Leading Types of Farming of Puerto Rico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3157285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rafael Pico (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135 |
| Publication date | 1939-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/141422 |
| OpenAlex | W2316495586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
F ARM organization and tenure are of vital importance to the Island of Puerto Rico, a basically agricultural community with a land shortage problem where 506 inhabitants depend directly or indirectly on every square mile of land, and 1,365 on each cultivated square mile of cropland, an efficient type of land tenure is at a premium. Together with efficient management, an equitable distribution of the farm income among all factors of production, such as farmer, laborer, and government (chiefly in the form of taxes), is also imperative in a progressive community with such a dense agricultural population. During the present century of American domination, efficiency in production has been achieved to a great extent in the leading export commodities of the Island (with the notable exception of coffee which has actually retrogressed) through specialization in a few crops, intensiveness of methods, use of machinery, introduction of higher yielding varieties, and use of thousands of laborers. Puerto
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Business · Economics · Geography · Land tenure · Agricultural Economics and Policy · Environmental Science · Land Rights and Reforms
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |