The World's Cane Sugar Industry, Past and Present

Abstract

ABOUT the middle of the nineteenth century nine-tenths of the world's sugar was obtained from the sugar cane. At the close of the century the proportion had fallen to about one-half, and the industry was considered by many to be dying out. Then there came a revival; the quantity began to increase, and has since grown continuously. The proportion, however, remains much about the same as before, for there has been a concurrent increase in the quantity of sugar produced from beetroot. In fact, an equilibrium appears now to have been reached, sugar cane and beetroot contributing each about one-half of the world's total sugar, though sometimes the one preponderates a little, sometimes the other.

The World's Cane Sugar Industry, Past and Present.

H. C. Prinsen Geerligs. Pp. xvi + 399 + maps. (Altrincham: Norman Rodger, 1912.) Price 12s. net.