TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griggs,P.D.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Global industry, local innovation: the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995 
AV  - HD9118.A8 G75 2011eb
U1  - 338.1/73610994 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Bern, New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Sugar trade
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Sugar growing
KW  - Sugar
KW  - Manufacture and refining
KW  - Sugarcane
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10600032
ER  -