THE WORLD'S SUGAR SUPPLIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3318, 23 October 1919, Page 2

THE WORLD'S SUGAR SUPPLIES.

Discussing the question of sugar supplies in the United -States, the National Ban}; of C'omm.ereeiin New York states that regional sliortagcs which occurred during the Will‘ were due to defectire distribution. Next year‘ no excess of consumption is likely. Present 'prospects indicate that the supply will be normal. Cuba. now leads the‘Tvorld in sugar production. Before the war the British, Indian, and -German sugar crops ranked first and second respectively, the Cuban crop being only third. In 1917 and; 1918 Cuba produced more sugar than either Brifish India or Grerniariy, 3-I1(1Il1Cl' 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—foufTi"of ‘the world"s production incontrast to less than oneeighth before the war. British India‘ and Germany, each of which before the war raised about one-seventh of the wol'ld’s crop, will raise this year oneseventh and _one-twelfth respectively. The Javan crop has so far increased in importance since the outbreak of the war than the 1919 ‘crop is estiniated at over one—t_enth of ‘the woi-lcl’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 half a million tons m.ore than the average pr.e-‘war crop.