Global industry, local innovation the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995 /
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Bern ; New York :
Peter Lang,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction
- Sugar cane and the production of sugar
- pt. 1. 1788 to 1863 : beginnings
- Intermittent attempts at sugar production
- The rise of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company
- pt. 2. 1864 to 1914 : becoming established
- The spread of sugar cane cultivation
- The production unit : planters, central millers, and small farmers
- Science and the canegrowers
- The milling sector
- Competing for the sugar basin : refiners, merchants, and the Australian sugar market
- pt. 3. 1915 to 1995 : expansion, export-orientated, and regulated
- A regulated expansion
- Growing the crop : cultivation methods, implements, and plant nutrition
- Managing water
- Breeding and improving cane varieties
- Combatting pests
- Defeating cane diseases
- Harvesting and transport of cane
- Regulating and modernising the milling sector
- The refining, marketing, and pricing of sugar.