ABSTRACT
This chapter uses as its main source Fernando Agete’s La Cañade Azúcar en Cuba (Sugarcane in Cuba) –an expansive, two-volume report into the state of sugarcane farming in Cubaand its short fallings, in the mid-twentieth century. 1 A report on this scale was unprecedentedin Cuban history, and what it reveals is not only the well-known dominanceof sugarcane within the island’s agricultural economy but importantlythe ongoing difficulty in persuading the island’s cane farmers toadopt more rational, scientific methods in their farming practice.
