. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . ry equipment and machinery. As a result numerous smallprimitive mills were eliminated and their owners turned tosugar-cane growing. Stimulated by a heavy protective tariff, the cane-producingarea in Tucuman increased from 12,000 to 104,000 acres be-tween 1881 and 1896, and in other provinces the industry madesubstantial progress. By 1894 the output exceeded the coun-trys requirements. This led the government to concede an ex-port bounty in 1896, and a syndicate called the Union Azuca-rera was formed by the producers,
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . ry equipment and machinery. As a result numerous smallprimitive mills were eliminated and their owners turned tosugar-cane growing. Stimulated by a heavy protective tariff, the cane-producingarea in Tucuman increased from 12,000 to 104,000 acres be-tween 1881 and 1896, and in other provinces the industry madesubstantial progress. By 1894 the output exceeded the coun-trys requirements. This led the government to concede an ex-port bounty in 1896, and a syndicate called the Union Azuca-rera was formed by the producers, who agreed to deliver to it60 per cent of their product. From 1896 to 1904 exports of sugarvaried from 15,000 to 50,000 tons per annum. Conditionschanged, however. The other South American countries wouldnot buy Argentine sugar, the United States had fixed a coun-tervailing duty on all bounty-fed sugars, and Great Britainwas contemplating their exclusion entirely. To save the situa-tion, therefore, it was decided to curtail the output, and the fol-lowing plan was adopted:.
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