The Rise and Decline of Small‐Scale Sugarcane Production in South Africa: A Historical Perspective

South Africa's sugar industry has long been distinguished by its large number of small‐scale sugarcane growers (SSGs) farming on ‘communal’ land and its peculiar privately administered regulatory structure. In recent years, however, the numbers of small‐scale growers have declined precipitously. This paper argues that the relationship between the rise and fall of SSG production and the industry's governing regulatory structure is closer than usually appreciated. The emergence of SSG production in the late 1970s and the 1980s can be traced to industry‐subsidized initiatives, disguised as small‐scale credit, to bring commercially inalienable Bantustan land into cane production with strong miller oversight. From the late 1980s to 1990s, however, the elimination of these subsidies encouraged millers to subcontract support to farmers, while simultaneously instigating an increase in SSG numbers by removing restrictions on grower registration. Although low rainfall is a central proximal factor in the rapid decline of the SSGs in the 2000s, their rapid increase was structurally fragile.     

WTO框架下的广西糖业

文章将广西糖业放在世界糖业发展状况、世界主要产糖国的生产比较中、入世对中国及广西糖业的影响方面进行了分析。在此基础上,对发展广西糖业提出了一些对策和建议。     

透视湛江农垦糖业循环经济的发展

十多年来,湛江农垦遵循行业发展规律,利用自身优势,整合资源,不断推进糖业循环经济的发展,实现了废水、废液的零排放;延伸蔗糖产业链,实现了经济效益和生态效益的“双赢”。蔗糖产业链条的延伸及循环经济发展的前瞻性得到了湛江生态市建设规划专家组的充分肯定。     

中国糖业发展循环经济的思考

本文首先介绍了中国糖业循环经济发展的现状，接着对目前糖业循环经济存在的不足进行分析，最后提出进一步发展中国糖业循环经济的思路。     

比较视角下的甜菜种植效益

甜菜是我国重要的糖料作物。应用多目标决策的密切值法原理,引入全局思想,按区域建立全局数据表,构建甜菜及其比对作物种植效益分析的数学模型。结果表明,在黑龙江、内蒙古甜菜种植效益排名第一位,在新疆排名第三位,具有比较优势。该结果对制定甜菜种植规划与制糖企业布局具有重要意义。     

The environmental,social and economic effects of recent technological changes in sugarcane on the State of São Paulo,Brazil

From 2007 to 2017, the Agro‐Environmental Protocol of the Sugar and Energy Sector was in force, an agreement between sugarcane mill owners and the State Government of São Paulo, Brazil, proposing to eliminate sugarcane burning as a method to facilitate the harvest. Simultaneously, the sugarcane harvest was becoming widely mechanized while, under the interests of capital accumulation, the mills were entering the information and communication technology era and providing the agricultural processes with more precise and immediate management and technological controls, similar to those implemented in the mills' administrative and industrial operations in the 1990s. Short‐term factors, including environmental factors, favoured sugarcane technological changes. As a result, there was a mass layoff of rural workers and an increasing number of people/workers in agricultural mechanization, transportation and maintenance of machinery and administrative as well. The whole process highlighted the differences between mills, resulting in small and medium sugarcane farmers and mills to become the most impacted, in operational and financial terms, by the accelerating mechanization of the sugarcane industry as a whole.     

食糖流通领域的应用及成效分析

文中结合广西糖网的探索实践,从电子商务在食糖流通领域的应用需求、食糖流通电子化交易的背景、必要性、操作性、实效性及尚待解决的问题等方面进行了深入的分析和研讨,并对今后如何规范食糖电子交易提出了具体的建议,希望最大程度地为其他大宗产品电子商务提供借鉴。     

应用吨装袋储运食糖探讨

文章分析了吨包装食糖储运的优越性,探讨适合食糖运输的吨装袋结构型式和吨包装食糖物流运输作业方式.     

A European role in intra-Asian commercial development: The Maclaine Watson network and the Java sugar trade c.1840–1942

This article concerns the Batavia (Jakarta)-based mercantile firm of Maclaine Watson (1827–1964) and its close commercial associates in the Netherlands Indies (modern-day Indonesia) and nearby Singapore. From its inception, the firm initially operated in the context of bilateral trade with Europe, in conjunction with its burgeoning role in the Netherlands Indies’ sugar export trade. By the century’s end, however, shifts in the direction of that trade meant that its prime commercial ventures were directed towards markets elsewhere in Asia. The significance of the firm’s involvement within intra-Asian trade and the region’s economic development forms the core of the article’s argument.