Abstract
The agricultural production of tropical Latin America is astonishingly low. The land area in Latin America that is suitable for crop production from a topographical standpoint varies from 95% in the plains to 75% on the plateaus, 25% in the hills, and 5% in the mountains. However, less than 5% of the total land area in tropical Latin America, approximately 1600 million ha, was under cultivation by 1950, largely because of adverse soil, geographic, or climatic conditions. Regionally the percentage of land under cultivation varied from 17% in the Caribbean Islands, to 9% in Central America and Mexico, down to 3% and 2% in Colombia and Brazil, respectively. According to estimates at the time, only 40% of the potentially arable land was being cultivated.
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