Sugar, the commercial product of the sugar-cane, has been a commodity of some prominence in world markets for the past four centuries. Today, the sugar-cane plant is cultivated in a number of countries in the tropics and subtropics--in many of which, conditions do not appear to be ideal. Because of the increasing demand for this commodity over so long a period and in so many diverse areas, sugar-cane has spread widely with the discovery and settlement of new lands, beginning in the 15th century. Subsequent expansion of European and world trade, vagaries of evolving geopolitics, and later, inter-commodity competition induced under differing political conditions helped to continue the spread of the plant. The sugar-cane which remains a major commercial crop, can benefit from a climatological investigation into its growth requirements, for this, in fact, has been very little investigated during the three hundred years of prominence and dispersal.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115265 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Smith, Samuel. I. |
| Contributors | Hare, F. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Geography.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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