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Venezuela Land Use
Only some 4 percent of Venezuela's total area, or about
3.8
million hectares, was considered readily arable or already
under
cultivation in the late 1980s. Some estimates claimed that
as
much as one-third of the country's total land area was
suitable
for agriculture. In general, however, Venezuela's vast
expanse
was better suited to forest or pasture than to crops, and
much
otherwise arable land had been relatively neglected
because of
adverse weather conditions or lack of access to markets.
Data as of December 1990
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