The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-16
WORLDS SUGAR PRODUCTION IS
twelve PERCENT LESS SINCE WAR
Consumption In United States Has Increased Ten Percent
In Bulk But Fallen Off Per Capita Of POpu-
htiOn Seven Pounds

three-tenths cents, and in 1Ol7 four and
six -tenths cents.
Exports Grow Rapidly Ia
Our exports of sugar have grown
very rapidly during the war, having
been, in 1914, Fifty million pounds, in
1918, $50 millions and in 1917 1880
million pounds, the value of the ex-
ports increasing from less than So.
100000 in 1914 70 over s77,0O0,0O0 in
1917. OF the 1850 million pounds ex.
ported in 1917, $50 millions went to
France, about $50 millions to Great
Britain, fifty millions to Italy, $50
millions to Deutrai Europe and about
$50 million pounds 70 South America,
The world 3 chief producers Of cane
sugar are Cuba, India, Java, the Ha-
waiian and Philippine Islands, and
Porto Rico; and the chief producers Of
beet sugar are Germany, Russia, Aus
tria- Hungary, France and the United
States. Cuba, from which we draw our
chief imports, is now the worlds larg.
est producer, her crop, in the sugar
year 1861 having been 6,730,OOO, 900
pounds, India 5.ss2, 100000, Java 81.
575,000,000, Hawaii l,2sS,00O 1000, and
Porto Rico 1,O06, 000, 900 pounds, while
Germany's beet sugar prediction in
1854 (the latest peace year., was
6,O93, 0O0, 900, Russia 3,sgS, O00, 900, Aus.
tria Hungary 3,774,000, 900, France, L.
749, 900, 900, the United States in 1916.
IL 1,646,000,O00 pounds of beet sugar
and 6l3, 100000 pounds Of cane. d.
increases by decades a.......
The worlds sugar production, as far
as can be statistieally stated was in
1870 5000, 900 900 pounds, in 1880 L.
0O0, 100000, in 1890 $4,000, 900 900, in
1900 10000, 900, 900, in 1910 80, 1000, 000,-
900, in 1914 42,000,000, 900 and in 1917
81, 600, 900, 900 pounds, this falling of
product in the beet fields Of the Euro
sumption has about kept pace with this
rapid growth in world production, since
we consumed in 1870 twenty.three per
cent Of the world 3 output and in 1917
twenty-one percent Of the worlds to-
tai s ".l
Sugar Production Of World T., I z
The table which follows shows the
quantity Of sugar produced in the
principal sugarprodueing countries Of
the world in each sugar year from 1912
l3 to 1867. The period Of the year
in which sugar is produced, of course,
varies greatly; in the United States
from September to January; in the
West Indies, January to June; in the
Hawaiian and Philippine Islands from
November to July; in Java from May
to November, India from December to
May; Australasia from June to Novem-
Der; Egypt from January to June; in
the beet area Of Europe from December
TO June. The figures presented are in
most cases those Of total production,
though in a few instances it is only
practicable to show the quantity ex-
ported. The chief exporting countries
are Cuba, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico,
Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and
Java. Russia, Germany and Austria
Hungary export portion Of their crops
Of beet sugar to other European coun-
tries; practically none of the beet sn-
gar crop Of Europe (Which is normally
about one-haIf Of the world g sugar sup
Ply, passes out Of that continent. Brit
ish India, the second largest producer
Of cane sugar, consumes her entire
crop. Il