Small farmers, their association, and the transformation of the Australian sugar industry
Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2019) Small farmers, their association, and the transformation of the Australian sugar industry. Arcadia, Summer (26).
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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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