"In this book, [the author] provides the first comprehensive history of Fiji's sugar industry, which has been the mainstay of the country's economy for the past hundred years. He examines the circumstances in which the industry was set up, the development of plantation agriculture before World War I, the evolution of the unique smallfarm system of sugar production, the conflict of interest between the mostly Indian growers and the Australian based millers, and the withdrawal in 1973 of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. [C.S.R.] which had dominated the industry since the 1880s."--Summary, P. v.
Book Details
- Country: US
- Published: 1981
- Publisher: Australian National University
- Language: English
- Pages: 306
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