Since colonial times, sugarcane production has played a leading role in the Cuban economy. While a colony, sugarcane and tobacco were preferred over other crops for different reasons. Fruits and vegeta- bles as well as fish and meat were not suitable to the long trip back to Europe and local tubers, such as yucca (yucca), did not have a market.
How Cuba’s sugar industry has been ground into dust
2023年5月12日 · From the moment Spanish colonists first planted cane here in the 16th century, sugar has been etched into this island’s soul. For countless Africans brought here to cut it, sugar meant...
the weight of the cultures in existence here, like sugar cane ground in the rollers of the mill. And still other immigrant cultures of the most varying origins arrived, either in sporadic waves or a continuous flow, always exerting an influence and being influenced in turn: Indians from the mainland, Jews,
Cuba, Puerto Rico, & the Caribbean - Sugar and Sugarcane: …
2024年12月16日 · The author examined the impact of sugar and tobacco on Cuban society. He presents his understanding of Cuban history in two complementary sections. One is a allegorical tale narrated as a counterpoint between tobacco and sugar and the other is a historical analysis of their development as the central agricultural products of the Cuban economy.
In some instances, Cuba has been forced to import sugar in order to meet ex-port obligations. This paper compares the conditions and performance of the Cuban sugar industry around 1959 and 2019, that is, over the 60 years of Castroist rule on the is-land.
(PDF) Cuba's Sugar Industry Transformation (1880–1930): Social …
In mid-2002, the Cuban government announced a radical transformation of its sugar agro-industry. The element of the restructuring plan that has received the most attention is the initial shutting down of 71 of the nation's 156 sugar mills, and the assignment of 14 others to produce sugar derivatives.
Unlike Cuba's first product, sugar, tobacco did not develop along the lines of a plantation economy in any classical sense. Nineteenth-century capitalist development did, however, incorporate into it elements of feudalism and slavery; and there was a marked fusion of merchant, manufacturer, and grower capital, especially in
by the railroads originates in the sugar in-dustry."3 In addition, Cuba produces great quanti-ties of blackstrap and high-test molasses, as well as syrups which are made from sugar cane. The second most exportable com-modity is tobacco, with fruits and vegetables coming next in commercial importance. Furthermore, the climate and pasture lands
Sugar Cane and Agricultural Transformations in Cuba
For the greater part of the 19th and 20th centuries, Cuba, the largest island in the Antilles, figured as the principal exporter of sugar cane, a product that dominated the country’s agro-industry. In this way, Cuba became illustrative of the economic, social, political, and environmental impact of basing an economy on monoculture in order to ...
LibGuides: The Sugar Road/el Camino de Azúcar: Cuba
2024年10月11日 · Ortiz presents his understanding of Cuban history in two complementary sections written in contrasting styles: a playful allegorical tale narrated as a counterpoint between tobacco and sugar and a historical analysis of their development as the central agricultural products of the Cuban economy.