Abstract
A Cuban economist and official of the National Institute for Agrarian Reform documents the concentration of Cuban sugar-production and cattle-raising in the hands of a relatively small number of producers. He uses the data to support the demand for agricultural reform. Especially strong are his points that the sugar industry does not make full use of its lands; that it has contributed to unemployment and the failure to develop a subsistence economy; and that the large cattle-raisers have apparently limited production in a successful effort to increase prices. It is noteworthy that the 28 largest sugar companies control 22.7% of the total land area of Cuba, the thousand largest cattle ranches another 11%. Still lacking is the extent of Cuban latifundium ownership in comparison with American and other foreign ownership.