THE NATAL SUGAR INDUSTRY , 1849 - 1905 : AN j 3 TEBPRETATIVE ESSAY
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During the 19th century the cultivation of grass and root crops for the production of raw sugars was associated with some of the most important developments in the international economy. The burgeoning demand for cheap foodstuffs from the industrial centres of Western Europe and the United States led to an enormous increase in demand for cheap sugm along with other wicultural and industrial commodities. Thus, per capita consumption of sugar in the United Kingdom rose from 19.08 lbs per year in 1830 to 71.09 lbs in 1890. (1) Elsewhere in Elurope a demand for raw sugar was met not by imports of cane sugar but by the extraction of the sucrose content of domestically grown sugar beet. Between 1853 and 1882 the proportion of world sugar production derived from beet root sugar rose from 14 to 47 per cent. (2)
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