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  • noun Plural form of minifundium.

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Examples

  • I don't think that we would have been able to speak in these terms if we had turned the country into a nation of minifundia where we would not be able to use machinery, technology, irrigation, or the sugarcane harvester which has saved the labor of almost 300,000 compatriots.

    NEWS CONFERENCE IN QUITO 1988

  • We had the vision not to turn the country into a country of minifundia, which would have (? hurt) Cuba's sugar production.

    NEWS CONFERENCE IN QUITO 1988

  • This says a lot for a country which, when it began the construction of socialism, was an agricultural country, underdeveloped, which at one time had millions of owners of tiny land plots, of minifundia, and which had practically no industrial production.

    INAUGURATES HOLGUIN FACTORY 1981

  • For example, we have thought about the tobacco areas, which are composed of very small minifundia.

    15TH ANNIVERSARY-SIGNING OF AGARIAN REFORM LAW 1974

  • We observe that there are still outmoded techniques, a feudalistic-type exploitation of the land, land owners, minifundia, etc.

    12TH BULGARIAN KIMSOMOL CONGRESS 1972

  • You are young, Possibly many of your did not know, or none of your knew the problem of the minifundia [small farms] in Bulgaria.

    12TH BULGARIAN KIMSOMOL CONGRESS 1972

  • But it is obvious that if in our country we had been satisfied with applying the concepts that up to that time were the most advanced on agrarian questions, we would have mortgaged the future of the nation and filled the country with small holdings and minifundia.

    31 DEC ANAP CONGRESS 1972

  • During 1944, when the people's revolution achieved victory, there were 12 million minifundia in Bulgaria, 12 million parcels.

    12TH BULGARIAN KIMSOMOL CONGRESS 1972

  • On the one hand, there are the latifundia and, on the other, the minifundia [small farms].

    25 MAY CASTRO PRESS CONFERENCE 1972

  • I do not want to say 12 million minifundists, 12 million minifundia.

    12TH BULGARIAN KIMSOMOL CONGRESS 1972

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