Word: caning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department feels it is so important to show the Sudan a successful private enterprise industry that it is arranging to fly a delegation of government leaders to Hawaii to see how U.S. methods produce 88 tons of sugar cane per acre (five times the Cuban average). Sugar International thinks that opportunities to set up new sugar industries are virtually unlimited, is studying prospects in Jordan, Ghana, Kenya, Angola, Tanganyika and Uganda...
Trouble in Paradise. Few Hawaiians ever thought they would see the day when sugar planters would want-or need-to look beyond their own verdant cane fields. In the old days, sugar planters dominated Hawaii's economic, political and social life. But in the last 20 years, sugar's share of the Hawaiian gross product dropped from...
...flat, cleared land ideal for factory sites, housing and tourist developments. Some 38% of sugar land is leased, and already planters report that lessors are more and more reluctant to tie it up in agriculture when the most attractive long green waving in Hawaii is increasingly not sugar cane but the developer's dollar...