. The Cuba review. 36 THE CUBA RE V IE W The Sugar Industry European Sugar Industry The latest provisional estimate by F. O. Licht, the German sugar statistician, puts the European beet sugar crop of 1922-23 at 4,596,000 tons, a reduction of over tons from his previous estimate. Per capita consumption has increased in all the western European countries with the exception of Great Britain, where the use of sugar is curtailed through the high import duty imposed as a revenue measure during the war; but British consumption in 1922 exceeded that of the previous year by nearly 200,000 tons.
. The Cuba review. 36 THE CUBA RE V IE W The Sugar Industry European Sugar Industry The latest provisional estimate by F. O. Licht, the German sugar statistician, puts the European beet sugar crop of 1922-23 at 4,596,000 tons, a reduction of over tons from his previous estimate. Per capita consumption has increased in all the western European countries with the exception of Great Britain, where the use of sugar is curtailed through the high import duty imposed as a revenue measure during the war; but British consumption in 1922 exceeded that of the previous year by nearly 200,000 tons. The hoped-for re- duction in the import duty would greatly stimulate British consumption. A protec- tive tariff with correspondingly high price levels checks French consumption also. Consumption is steadily rising in Poland and Czechoslovakia. The 4,000,000 in- crease in Italy's population in the last de- cade, together with the augmented per capita consumption, has greatly expanded the country's sugar needs. The beet farmers of France and Belgium, profiting through protection, have done well, and a substantial increase in acreage is indicated for the coming spring in both countries, though a farm-labor shortage must be reckoned with in the case of France. Prospects are not bright for in- creased sowings in Czechoslovakia, owing to unsettled labor conditions and the un- satisfactory prices of the last beet crop. Under the present system of control the German beet growers are discouraged be- cause they must wait upwards of a year for final beet payments, and the prices fixed for sugar uniformly range below the world's market level. I India Crop The final estimate for the 1922-23 su- gar crop in India places the production at 2,988,000 tons, it is stated in a cable report to the Department of Commerce. The figure represents an increase of 607,- 000 tons, or 25 per cent over the 1921-22 outturn. The increase is due to the ef- fects of generally favorable weather, rain- fall havin
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