Page "Economy of Honduras" Paragraph 65

Honduran agricultural production overall has tended to be low because the amount of crop yielded by a given amount of land has been low.

For example, Honduran chocolate yields historically have been only about half those of Costa Rica.

Instead of using improved techniques to increase the productivity of the land, Honduran farmers have merely expanded the hectarage under cultivation to produce more crops — pushing their fields ever farther into the forests.

Given the limited amount of good quality agricultural land to begin with, that policy has resulted in continual deforestation and subsequent erosion.

This reluctance to improve techniques, coupled with generally poor soil, a lack of credit, and poor infrastructure, has contributed to low production figures.