THE WORLD’S SUGAR SUPPLY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2047, 28 October 1919, Page 2

THE WORLD’S SUGAR SUPPLY.

DISCUSSING the question of sugar supply in the. United States, the National Bank of Commerce in New York slates that regional shortages which'.occurred during the war were duo to.defective distribution. Next year no excess of consumption is likely. Present prospects indicate that (he supply will he normal, Cuba now leads the world in sugar production. Before the war the British Indian and German sugar crops ranked tirst and second respectively, the Cuban crop being only third. In 1917 and 1918 Cuba produced more sugar than either Britih India or Germany, and her estimated 1919 crop is larger than the estimated crops of these two countries combined, and more, than twice as large as her own average pre-war crop. It will amount this year to nearly one-fourth of the world's production, in contrast to less than oneeighth before the war. British India and Germany, each of which before (lie war raised about one-seventh of (he world’s crop, will raise this year one-seventh and one-twelfth respectively. The Javan crop has so far increased in importance since the outbreak of the war that: the 1019 crop is estimated at over one--tenth of the world's crop. The total world’s crop of 1919 is estimated at 18,312,000 tons, approximately a million tons less than the 1918 crop, but over a bail: million tons more than (lie average pre-war crop.