Author: Joseph Henry Burke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781396693281

Excerpt from Citrus Industry of Surinam Surinam, Netherlands Guiana, is on the northeast coast of South America, only 4 degrees above the equator. The Dutch colonized it in 1630, having received it from the British in settlement for New York. Until 1863, when the slaves were liberated, Surinam had a prosperous plantation agriculture producing coffee, sugar, cotton, and other crops for world markets. But when slave labor was no longer available, agricultural exports declined to secondary importance, and now Surinam's most important export is bauxite. Though Surinam still has a few specialty export cr0ps such as rice, coffee, cocoa, citrus, and coco nuts and their products, it has no large agricultural indus tries. These specialty crops probably represent the limit of agricultural opportunity in Surinam. Because of the great difficulties involved in combatting the jungle and draining the soil, most agriculture will continue to be primarily for sub sistence. Thus, in Surinam, citrus production on the subsistence level would be natural; but the production and marketing of citrus that can meet world competition in export markets presents many problems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.