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Progress (and Poverty) in Porto Rico
Warner, Arthur | August 22, 1923 issue

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This article focuses on the economic development in Porto Rico. Porto Rico's food problem is due to the extraordinary and rapidly increasing density of the population. There are 378 persons to the square mile, an increase of 100 persons to the square mile since the beginning of American rule. The great export crops of Porto Rico are sugar cane, tobacco and coffee, with grapefruit making rapid headway in recent years. In Spanish days coffee was Porto Rico's great crop. It has since become secondary to both sugar and tobacco. Sugar now comprises about half of the entire agricultural wealth of the island and employs 40 per cent of all the farm labor.

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ECONOMIC development; POPULATION; TOBACCO; EXPORTS; ECONOMIC policy; AGRICULTURE; PUERTO Rico
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