Global industry, local innovation
Subtitle: the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995
By: Peter D. Griggs
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9783034304313
Subjects: Manufacture and refining; Sugar trade; Sugar growing; Sugarcane; Economic conditions; History; Sugar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction; title: Sugar cane and the production of sugar; title: pt. 1. 1788 to 1863 : beginnings; title: Intermittent attempts at sugar production; title: The rise of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company; title: pt. 2. 1864 to 1914 : becoming established; title: The spread of sugar cane cultivation; title: The production unit : planters, central millers, and small farmers; title: Science and the canegrowers; title: The milling sector; title: Competing for the sugar basin : refiners, merchants, and the Australian sugar market; title: pt. 3. 1915 to 1995 : expansion, export-orientated, and regulated; title: A regulated expansion; title: Growing the crop : cultivation methods, implements, and plant nutrition; title: Managing water; title: Breeding and improving cane varieties; title: Combatting pests; title: Defeating cane diseases; title: Harvesting and transport of cane; title: Regulating and modernising the milling sector; title: The refining, marketing, and pricing of sugar.