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- noun A
smallholding , inLatin America , that is too small to support a family
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Examples
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Education, public health, electric power, running water, dwellings, transportation, communications, all the advantages of modern-day life, including the color television set Prudencio mentioned, by can never be attained with the isolated minifundium.
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She knows that it is very difficult to organize a child care center in the midst of the minifundium.
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The woman knows she is not going to have running water at the minifundium, or the possibility of using any type of electric appliance, or owning a refrigerator, or having electric power.
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But does this mean that we will have to remain as independent peasants in a minifundium?
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It is technology that will some day make agricultural production a production in great measure and not a production of minifundium.
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In the first place, the revolution, the abolition of the feudalistic system of exploiting land, the abolition of the latifundium and something else, the abolition of the minifundium, the establishment of adequate agricultural structures, the application of technology and scientific methodology in agriculture -- In two words, we can state that here in
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How can you use aircraft in the case of one minifundium?
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Do you think that electronic computers and the automation of production can be applied to a minifundium?
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How can you use a large combine in a minifundium having half a hectare of rice planted over wheat?
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