clearly point up the general need for more serious survey research
to uncover actual small-scale mixed cropping patterns, ad-
justments to constraints, levels of farm effort and productivity,
and so on (W. Shaner et al., 1982). In particular, these findings
suggest that the two smallest scale farm classifications deserve fur-
ther scrutiny not only because of their relatively superior efficien-


cy and output performance, but also because one of the most
glaring deficiencies identified in the territory is the existence of
large tracts of "essentially semi-abandoned" agricultural land
(Government of the Virgin Islands, 1980:61) highly suitable for
the kinds of intensive small-farm crop cultivation documented
above.


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