Small farmers, their association, and the transformation of the Australian sugar industry

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Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka
Abstract

In the late nineteenth century in a tropical region of Australia, sugar plantations disappeared. This progression from plantation production to widespread sugar cane cultivation by independent small growers occurred nowhere else in the sugar-growing world. In north Queensland small sugar cane farmers provide an audacious example of rural agency. The Herbert River Farmers’ Association contributed to a significant and unprecedented change in production methods and demonstrated the potential for grass roots farmer organisation to overcome institutionalized planter dominance of politics, society, and economy of tropical sugar districts.

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Arcadia

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Summer

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2199-3408

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26

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5

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Rachel Carson Centre

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10.5282/rcc/8746