Small farmers, their association, and the transformation of the Australian sugar industry
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCUVidonja 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