... little increase in the amount of land devoted to the production of food crops. It was estimated during the 1920's that in the whole Amazon Region there was scarcely a hundred square miles devoted to any kind of agriculture, let alone the production of local supplies of food . In the interior many of the smaller towns whose names still appear on standard maps ... in the North of Brazil. The Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil purchased a tract of land, including some 2,500,000 acres, along the right bank of the Rio Tapajoz about 135 miles upstream from the Amazon . The area was known as ...

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