THE WORLD’S SUGAR SUPPLY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2069, 18 December 1919, Page 4

THE WORLD’S SUGAR SUPPLY.

A review of the world's production of sugar during each of the last six seasons has been made by the Statistical Department of the British Board of Trade. From this survey it appears that the world’s production of raw cane sugar (excluding the Indian crop, which is consumed locally) rose from 7,500,000 tons in 1913-14 to 9,700,000 tons in 1918-19, an increase of 2,200,000 tons. In the ease of raw beet sugar, however, the world’s production dropped from 8,900,000 tons in the former season to 4,300,000 tons in the latter, a decrease of 4,500,000 tons. On balance, there was therefore a deficiency in the world’s supply of sugar in the season just ended (1918-19), compared with prewar supplies amounting to approximately 2,400,000 tons. In the season 1917-18 the deficiency was somewhat less, namely, 1,400,000 tons. The season of 1918-19 is thus estimated to show a decline in sugar production of about 14 per cent, compared with 1913-14. But for the increase in the Cuban output, from 2,000,000 tons in 1913-14 to an estimated 4,000,000 tons in 191819, the decline would have been much more serious. The latest reports indicate that for 1919-20 the world’s crops are likely to fall short of those of the previous season by about 400,000 tons.