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Island Crops Highlight Porto Rico Profits and Cocoa Potential
The article extols Porto Rico's tropical crops headed by coffee with sugar and tobacco as major earners. It highlights cacao as a promising, underdeveloped product thriving in hills and moist valleys, noting its chocolate trade value and native Aztec name chocolatl. It observes cacao’s height, maturity, and adaptable growing conditions across rocky slopes and coastal valleys.
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Porto Rico
Tropics
Uguele
Enis Island
United States
American Tropics
Islet
Vieques
Cuba
Santo Domingo
Honduras
London
Government Bureau of Statistics
Austin
Por Rico
Estadistica General del Comercio Exterior
Bureau of Statistics
Brazil
Venezuela
Central America
Mexico
Colombia
West Indies
Arabia
Sumatra
Java
Grenada
Bermuda
St. Vincent
Sur
Bahamas
Yucatan
Canaries
Vuelta Abajo
Abajo
Palmas
Caguas
Cidra