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We can sum up from the economic point of view, the Brazilian agricultural problem in one word: poor productivity. A few summary data will suffice to show the state of affairs; we will then look into its causes; it is this aspect of the agricultural problem which has the greatest bearing on the immigration question.
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Bastos De Avila, F. (1954). The Agricultural Problem. In: Economic Impacts of Immigration. Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9040-4_4
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