. The cacao industry of Ecuador :. Cacao Ecuador. - 8 - WASTELAND ^ CULTIVATED t PASTURE. UNCULTIVATED 47. 9 < TOTAL-17,156,600 ACRES FIGURE distribution, Coastal Region, 1943. The size of the haciendas varies widely among the regions, but in general the smallest ones are in the Bahia Region and the largest in the Balao Region, as shown in table 1. The average area of the ha- ciendas in the two regions are 611 and 20,083 acres, respectively, as shown in table 2. Approximately one- fourth of the haciendas studied comprise about 250 acres or less, while two-thirds have
. The cacao industry of Ecuador :. Cacao Ecuador. - 8 - WASTELAND ^ CULTIVATED t PASTURE. UNCULTIVATED 47. 9 < TOTAL-17,156,600 ACRES FIGURE distribution, Coastal Region, 1943. The size of the haciendas varies widely among the regions, but in general the smallest ones are in the Bahia Region and the largest in the Balao Region, as shown in table 1. The average area of the ha- ciendas in the two regions are 611 and 20,083 acres, respectively, as shown in table 2. Approximately one- fourth of the haciendas studied comprise about 250 acres or less, while two-thirds have less than 1,250 acres. In the Balao Region, few haciendas have less than 1,000 acres, while sev- eral have upwards of 62,000 acres and more than 1/4 million trees. An average of approximately 10 percent of the total area of the haciendas are planted to cacao, with a range from percent in the Arriba Region to percent in the Balao Pegion, as indicated in table 2. A reverse ratio exists between the size of the hacienda and the per- centage of total area planted to cacao (figure 4). Haciendas with an area of about 125 acres or less have as much as 29 percent of the total area in cacao,while all the other area classes have between 3 and 10 percent. Concerning the cacao plantings, it was found that two-thirds of the haciendas visited have less than 1,2 50 acres in cacao, as shown in figure 5 and table 1. The smallest individual plantings are located in the Bahia Region, and the largest are in the Balao Region, with areas of 56 and 1,275 acres, respectively (table 2). With few excep- tions, cacao plantings are located along the pigur£ of total area of haciendas in cacao, rivers. Although they by area classes. PERCENT IN CACAO 0- 125 126- 250 251- 501- 751- 1001- 500 750 1000 1250 AREAS OF HACIENDAS BY CLASSES (ACRES) 1251- 2 501- 12,501- 25,001- 2,500 12,500 25,000 a OVER. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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