Geography

Abstract

DR. ROBERTSON'S present association with the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome has ensured an adequate use of statistics in this book whilst his training in the University of London has given it a viewpoint which will render it of considerable value, as a convenient summary, to economists and geographers. After reviewing the general conditions of cane and beet-sugar production, he treats each major producing area in turn, stressing the variations in unit-yields from one area to another. The huge expansion in consumption which is considered possible could largely be met by increasing the yields in Cuba (2-3 tons per acre) or India to those of Java which have risen from 1.1 to 6.5 tons in the last century. The Indian statistics cease with 1932-33, but the recent expansion is predicted. It is considered that if protection were removed, beet-sugar would practically disappear.

World Sugar Production and Consumption: an Economic-Geographical Survey

By Dr. C. J. Robertson. Pp. vii + 142. (London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Ltd., 1934.) 5s. net.